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12-28-2009, 02:59 PM,

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' Wrote:Running Freelancer on Windows 7 Professional. The big difference between Professional and Home Premium is listed on the back of the box ... specifically, "Run many Windows XP productivity applications in Windows XP Mode." In other words ... Windows 7 Home Premium does NOT support XP legacy stuff. So you may and may not be able to get old stuff to run on it. Gotta fork out the extra $$$ to be able to run old software that ran under XP.

Say, "thank you Microsoft" and "thank you Bill Gates" ... for caring about us peons.

Thats not quite true...

the legacy stuff is still there, most xp aps work under vista and win7.

then there is stuff called compatibility mode. this is more or less deactivate the new stuff and run only the legacy stuff.

the xp mode in professional is a virtual machine, you also have to download it first. the xp mode is for unclean written software that uses direct system calls instead of interfaces like direct X or api calls.
games wont run in xp mode as there is no 3d support.

:yahoo:Freelance doesn't even need compatibility mode, it runs just fine under normal windows 7 home premium 64 for me.:yahoo:

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windows 7 compatible? - by NomadRevenge - 12-22-2009, 12:01 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by mwerte - 12-22-2009, 12:02 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by NomadRevenge - 12-22-2009, 12:04 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by Hundra - 12-22-2009, 12:11 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by Baltar - 12-22-2009, 12:34 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by NomadRevenge - 12-22-2009, 12:52 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by sean24 - 12-22-2009, 01:15 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by kindred - 12-22-2009, 01:25 AM

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windows 7 compatible? - by Patriot - 12-22-2009, 01:41 AM

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windows 7 compatible? - by Colonel Z.e.r.o. - 12-22-2009, 03:12 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by Patriot - 12-22-2009, 03:16 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by Contaan - 12-22-2009, 03:22 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by Colonel Z.e.r.o. - 12-22-2009, 03:28 AM

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windows 7 compatible? - by Baltar - 12-22-2009, 06:24 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by pieguy259 - 12-22-2009, 09:31 AM

windows 7 compatible? - by FooFighter - 12-22-2009, 09:38 AM

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windows 7 compatible? - by Tommeh - 12-22-2009, 02:39 PM

windows 7 compatible? - by NomadRevenge - 12-22-2009, 03:56 PM

windows 7 compatible? - by FooFighter - 12-22-2009, 06:00 PM

windows 7 compatible? - by Baltar - 12-22-2009, 06:02 PM

windows 7 compatible? - by NomadRevenge - 12-22-2009, 06:34 PM

windows 7 compatible? - by Colonel Z.e.r.o. - 12-27-2009, 02:42 PM

windows 7 compatible? - by rayne - 12-27-2009, 03:17 PM

windows 7 compatible? - by me777 - 12-28-2009, 02:59 PM

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