Old CD-ROM's on XP Pro

[apprentice]

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I have a copy of Sophies World a PC CD ROM with ESS230 on the spine.
Which worked fine on my old win 95 machine. Since upgrading to XP PRO i
cannot load this software. It claims 'The
fileC:\windows\system32\msvcrt40.dll is in use & cannot be installed.
Please exit all other programs and retry.'
I have called the tech support line and they offer no help. I have
tried the old system config files in win xp pro to no avail.
Can any one offer any help.
apprentice.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

XP sometimes has trouble with software that old. Open the Help and Support
Center and read the article entitled: Getting older programs to run on
Windows XP

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"apprentice" <william.allen90@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> I have a copy of Sophies World a PC CD ROM with ESS230 on the spine.
> Which worked fine on my old win 95 machine. Since upgrading to XP PRO i
> cannot load this software. It claims 'The
> fileC:\windows\system32\msvcrt40.dll is in use & cannot be installed.
> Please exit all other programs and retry.'
> I have called the tech support line and they offer no help. I have
> tried the old system config files in win xp pro to no avail.
> Can any one offer any help.
> apprentice.
>