From: relic211@cjb.net   
      
   "Jack Crenshaw"  wrote in message   
   news:1OCdnVSjBrFC4fXQnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > On 2/25/2011 9:55 PM, relic wrote:   
   >> Close, but not quite.   
   >> All that was on the disk for XP gets saved in a directory named   
   >> Old_Windows. The apps are there too, but not executable usually because   
   >> they aren't registered in Windows 7's Registry.   
   >   
   > Sorry to hear that.  Just for curiousity, what good does it do to save the   
   > app, if it can't be executed????   
      
   It isn't trying to save your apps, it just saves everything that was on the   
   disk before it installed Windows 7, It expects you to reinstall, or upgrade   
   your apps. Old 16-bit apps will only run with the 32-bit version of W7.   
      
   >>   
   >> Yes, Windows 7 IS that much better than XP SP3.   
   >   
   > Sigh.  Guess I'll never know.   
   >   
      
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