old cd's

[bluemoon1]

I have an old cd which I would run on windows 97, I upgraded to xp and it still allowed me to run it. I'm now on 7 and it wont let me run it. your help please

[Postdog]

One you made? probably too old but if you have access to another computer try that and make a new copy.

A music CD? try it in a CD or DVD player.

[puternut]

Find the first program you need to run on the cd - might be 'setup.exe' or similar.

Right click on this and 'Run as Administrator'

I Am no computer wizard but you never know .....

[Postdog]

Or, having read the last answer, is it a program? Not all program's compatible with one system (especially an old one) will run on a newer one.

Though as you have clearly had a computer a long time I'm sure you must know that.

[bluemoon1]

Thanks for your replies, perhaps I didn't explain myself properly. It is a program, when I ran it on xp there was an option to revert to 97 and thats when it ran fine. I just wondered if there was a similar option on 7 but I cant find it.

[deggers316]

windows 97 ?? no wonder it wont play there is no 97

[deggers316]

ive a few cd rom's that would play in win 98 but not in xp never mind win 7
pity they were of great interest

[Postdog]

Ditto - I've found it annoying that things I have enjoyed prior to upgrading are rendered useless after. Even if they cost me nothing, or not very much, but obviously if I have paid a lot too.

[Wak]

I tried to run a CD with a Win 98 program on last week and the CD told me that it wouldn't run on the system installed on my computer.
That instruction came from the CD, not my Win XP so I opened the program in Windows Explorer and just clicked the relative Program.EXE file and it started OK.
You can but try, as Puternut says!