Run FPW 2.6a on Windows 7 64 bit?

[Dan Musicant]

I copied my FPW 2.6a installation to my newly assembled Windows 7 64bit
machine and foxprow.exe will not run. It says the version of the file is
not compatible with the version of Windows I'm running. Am I going to
have to downgrade the machine to XP Pro or is there a workaround? The
researches I did indicated that I wouldn't have compatability problems
running older software. Will it really not run on a 64 bit OS?

Email: dmusicant at pacbell dot net

[Dan Freeman]

Dan Musicant expressed precisely :

Right click the exe in Windows Explorer and choose "Compatibility
mode".

Set it to run in WinXP emulation.

Dan

[Dan Freeman]

Dan Freeman formulated on Sunday :

..... in the properties dialog. Sorry for the brevity.

[Dan Musicant]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:39:33 -0800, Dan Freeman <d...@dfapam.com> wrote:

:Dan Musicant expressed precisely :

:
I tried that before posting, and got the same error.

Dan

[Dan Musicant]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:40:04 -0800, Dan Freeman <d...@dfapam.com> wrote:

:Dan Freeman formulated on Sunday :

:
Yup, already tried that, same message appears. I have a choice of many
OS compat modes and I chose WinXP SP3. So far no good...

Dan

[Dan Freeman]

Dan Musicant used his keyboard to write :

I haven't run FPW since around 1993 or so. Sorry. I won't be much help.

Dan

[Dan Freeman]

Dan Musicant presented the following explanation :

See:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7programs/thread/d3ffbce8-f8f2-41f5-892a-7af129f98fb7

[Zootal]

Dan Musicant <m...@privacy.net> wrote in
news:huaie6lhm32e6tkfe...@4ax.com:

IIRC, FoxPro for Windows 2.x is a 16 bit application and therefore will NOT
run under any 64 bit version of Windows, including Windows 7 64 bit. I can
get it to run under Windows 7 32 bit.

If you really need it to run, use Windows Virtual PC XP Mode, which is
available for free download from Microsoft and gives you Windows XP 32 bit
in a virtual machine, free key included. Or, use Virtual Box to run a 32
bit OS of your choice - I've had a lot more luck with Virtual Box, but you
have to provide your own OS license.

[tom knauf]

Hi,

Hi

as far as I know XP-Mode is avaliable for WIN7 Pro or ultimate only
If you use home premium or less you have to use virtual box, vmware or
others.

hth
tom

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[Zootal]

Dan Musicant <m...@privacy.net> wrote in
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> I copied my FPW 2.6a installation to my newly assembled Windows 7 64bit

I really will not run on a 64 bit OS.

You can run it using VirtualBox - you will need a license for any copies of
Windows you install with VirtualBox, or you can install linux and try
running it via Wine. I've done this and it works, but has not been
extensively tested.

Disclaimer - I've not tried it with a 64 bit version of linux, so don't
know if it would work or not. Under Slackware 12.2 32 bit, FPW runs.

You might also run the app with VFP - Many/most FPW apps will run fine in
VFP as-is with little or no rework necessary if you don't mind it looking a
bit ugly.

Microsoft crippled VirtualPC so that it won't run under non Pro/Ultimate
versions of Windows 7, which really bites.

[Gene Wirchenko]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:58:10 -0600, Zootal
<nos...@spam.zootal.nospam.com> wrote:

[snip]

>I really will not run on a 64 bit OS.

^
Hard AI has still not been solved?

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Dan Musicant]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:58:10 -0600, Zootal
<nos...@spam.zootal.nospam.com> wrote:

:Dan Musicant <m...@privacy.net> wrote in

This is interesting, and I was wondering, haven't had the time yet to
install my applications on the 64bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine. I was
wondering if the VFP 9 would run the applications. They are FPW 2.6a
applications, tested and working in VFP in Windows XP Pro. I just
assumed they'd run in the 64 bit OS, but on second thought wasn't sure.
My concern in posting here was that I wasn't able to run FPW 2.6a,
period. The biggest reason I'd like to do that is to make the occasional
modification to one of the FPW screens and run the screen builder to
produce the SPRs.

I haven't looked into VirtualBox yet or VirtualPC. I did have a look at
the VMWare site and registered and got a key for a free download but I
decided I probably don't want to mess with that.

Dan

[Zootal]

Dan Musicant <m...@privacy.net> wrote in

news:uu0hf6plv64menj94...@4ax.com:

VMWare is a pain in the butt to use and did not perform well. Remoting into a
VMWare box via slow connection is almost unusable. We quickly discarded it in
favor of VirtualBox. VirtualBox works very well, and I've found it to be more
stable than VirtualPC. Plus VirtualBox runs on all versions of Windows 7, as well
as linux. I have Win2000, WinXP, and linux installs for VirtualBox that I keep
handy for when I need to do something that my main OS won't let me do. I spent
quite a long time working from home via the Win2000 installation. I needed a VPN
connection and I didn't want to install it into my main OS.

I now install a lot of stuff into a Virtual OS when I don't want to risk messing
up my main OS - remember Win98? One bad install, and bye bye Windows, time for
yet another reinstall. I try to keep my main OS as clean as possible.

Nice thing about the VirtualBox installs is you can easily backup the virtual
hard drive, and restore it as needed.

It isn't the FPW application that doesn't run, it is FPW itself that won't run
under a 64 bit OS. My limited testing indicated that FPW apps run fine under
VFP9. There is some articles out there somewhere discussing some possible changes
you might have to make, such as fonts and code cleanup (VFP won't allow some
sloppy code that FPW did), but otherwise it is usually painless to run the app. I
have even run FoxPro DOS apps under VFP with great success.