xxkbxx Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 My boss gave me an old program (5 disc set on electric properties and such)It's very old - intended for windows 3.1, or "95 or better"After installing the program and intending to run I getException EInOut Error in module ELECT132.EXE at 0003522CFile access deniedI'm assuming the issue is the program being intended for an old machine - is there anything i can do? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimras Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 (edited) Try thisOpen Explorer and find the .exe program that you are having trouble withright click on the .exe program and choose properties. Click on the tab for compatibility and click the box to run the program in compatibility mode. Then choose Windows 95 and then click on "OK"Then try to run it. Hopefully, this will help!jr Edited February 15, 2006 by jimras Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted February 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 FunnyTried compatibility modes and such - didn't workI just launched the EXE from my hard drive and now it works! Must have been an autoplay issue of some sort Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dragon Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 on the old 3.1 they didn't generally use the shortcut likes they do on XP. on 95 they had just started working with the shourtcut systems like XP so a lot of the programs still worked like 3.1 on windows. the shortcut PIF was associated with the exe more directly then the Icons on xp are now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted February 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 on the old 3.1 they didn't generally use the shortcut likes they do on XP. on 95 they had just started working with the shourtcut systems like XP so a lot of the programs still worked like 3.1 on windows. the shortcut PIF was associated with the exe more directly then the Icons on xp are now.Makes senseI'm just pissed that I couldn't run it from cd images that i burnt with alcohol 120%It has to use the D drive to search for the CD, and my virtual drive is my FI've already burnt the 5 CD's so I'm not really interested in learning how to fix it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chappy Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Most older programs don't run on XP because of their DOS routines.DOS programs try to access levels of the OS that XP just doesn't allow access to, for security/stability reasons. That's one reason why program crashes in XP don't crash the entire system like it used to in 95/98 days, XP just doesn't allow that type of low-level access to programs anymore.Sometimes compatibility mode will run most aspects of older programs, but the really older ones usually fail to run at all in XP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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