Jon Page said:

> Windows XP has a 'Compatibility' mode if a problem occurs.
> Right click on an .exe file and select Properties/Compatibility.

Beware -- this remedy will not make Windows XP compatible with every
program written for earlier versions of Windows.

I recently bought a new computer with the XP Home Version operating
system and no matter what I did it refused to accept Encore version
4.2.1 which ran quite happily in my old Windows 98 OS.  (Encore is a
music notation program which I use to make piano rolls).  Encore is
costly, I feared that I had lost all my music files until I discovered
that the only way to activate them in Windows XP was to load Encore
version 4.5, another highly priced product.

A further annoyance is that unlike Windows 98, the Windows XP Home
Version bundle does not include the word processing program "Word For
Windows", a very expensive item which must be bought separately.

Fortunately for me Richard Brandle's wonderful Wind program seems to
be unaffected by the XP operating system.

If Windows 98 wasn't broke, why did Bill Gates fix it?

John Farrell
http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm

 [ A used computer with Win98 might cost less than the new programs
 [ needed for Windows XP...!   -- Robbie