how well does win 7 32bit run games desgined for 98/xp

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Kaitlin Kaschak459

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how bad is windows 7 32bit in terms of installing and running games released between 1999 and 2004. all of the games i own werre designed for windows 98/2000/xp i have xp-32bit but its giving me way to many issues so im debating a win 7 32 bit install for my E8400 reto build what do you guy think

my specs E8400 overclocked to 3.7
4 gigs ddr2 ram
nvidia 7900GT
1TB HDD

just wanna make sure that win 7 32bit will run these games

also i need to make sure windows 7 32bit can run starship troopers from 2005
 
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Games designed for 2000/XP shouldn't have much problems. The main difference with Win 7 is that 7 enforces admin privilege restriction. Before Vista, most Windows programs were written assuming admin privileges (they could do anything they wanted). Starting with Vista, they're supposed to run as an unprivileged user unless they absolutely need admin privileges. In most cases, if a program has problems you can get around it by running it in compatibility mode.

Games written for Win 98 will be a problem. Win 95/98 were really just a GUI running on top of a special unreleased version of DOS. That was Microsoft's workaround to thwart DR-DOS from cutting into their sales of DOS - combine DOS and Win95 into one "operating system" so...
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Games designed for 2000/XP shouldn't have much problems. The main difference with Win 7 is that 7 enforces admin privilege restriction. Before Vista, most Windows programs were written assuming admin privileges (they could do anything they wanted). Starting with Vista, they're supposed to run as an unprivileged user unless they absolutely need admin privileges. In most cases, if a program has problems you can get around it by running it in compatibility mode.

Games written for Win 98 will be a problem. Win 95/98 were really just a GUI running on top of a special unreleased version of DOS. That was Microsoft's workaround to thwart DR-DOS from cutting into their sales of DOS - combine DOS and Win95 into one "operating system" so people wouldn't buy DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS. To run these programs properly, Win 7 Pro and Ultimate actually shipped with a virtual machine which could run these programs. I never actually used it so I don't know how effective it is. I just made a Win98 virtual machine in VMWare and ran old Windows programs in that.
 
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