How to execute 16-bit installer on 64-bit Win7

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I am trying to install Sheridan controls  ActiveThreed 2 01  on Win7 64-bit  but evidently it is a 16-bit installer so it won t execute   What would be the best way to get round this problem     Can anyone comment on whether http   homepage3 nifty com takeda-toshiya msdos index html would be helpful

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I posted some information on the Infragistics forums for designer widgets that may help you for this. You can view the post with the following link:
http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/p/52530/320151.aspx#320151

Note that the registry keys would be different for the different product and you may need to install on a 32 bit machine to see what keys you need.

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I am mostly posting this in case someone comes along and is not aware that VB2005 and VB2008 have update utilities that convert older  VB versions to it s format  Especially since no one bothered to  point that fact out      Points taken  but maintenance of this VB6 product is unavoidable  It would also be costly in man-hours to replace the Sheridan controls with native ones  Simply developing on a 32-bit machine would be a better alternative than doing that  I would like to install everything on Win7 64-bit ideally      CJ7   Have you tried utilizing the code upgrade functionality of VB Express 2005    If not   1  Make a copy of your code - folder and all  2  Import the project into VB express 2005     This will activate the update wizard  3  Debug and get the app running  4  Create a new installer utilizing MS free tool  5  You now have a 32 bit application with a 32 bit installer   Until you do this  you will never know how difficult or hard it  will be to update and modernize the program  It is quite possible that the wizard will update the Sheridan controls  to the VB 2005 controls  Again  you will not know if it does and how well it does it until you try it   Alternatively  stick with the 32 Bit versions of Windows 7 and 8  I have Windows 7 x64 and a program that will not run  However  the program will run in Windows 7 32 bit as well as Windows 8 RC 32 bit  Under Windows 8 RC 32  I was prompted to enable 16 bit emulation which I did and the program rand quite fine afterwords

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You can t run 16-bit applications  or components  on 64-bit versions of Windows  That emulation layer no longer exists  The 64-bit versions already have to provide a compatibility layer for 32-bit applications   Support for 16-bit had to be dropped eventually  even in a culture where backwards-compatibility is of sacred import  The transition to 64-bit seemed like as good a time as any  It s hard to imagine anyone out there in the wild that is still using 16-bit applications and seeking to upgrade to 64-bit OSes      What would be the best way to get round this problem    If the component itself is 16-bit  then using a virtual machine running a 32-bit version of Windows is your only real choice  Oracle s VirtualBox is free  and a perennial favorite   If only the installer is 16-bit  and it installs a 32-bit component   then you might be able to use a program like 7-Zip to extract the contents of the installer and install them manually  Let s just say this  solution  is high-risk and you should have few  if any  expectations   It s high time to upgrade away from 16-bit stuff  like Turbo C   and Sheridan controls  I ve yet to come across anything that the Sheridan controls can do that the built-in controls can t do and haven t been able to do since Windows 95

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It took me months of googling to find a solution for this issue   You don t need to install a virtual environment running a 32-bit version of Windows to run a program with a 16-bit installer on 64-bit Windows   If the program itself is 32-bit  and just the installer is 16-bit  here s your answer   There are ways to modify a 16-bit installation program to make it 32-bit so it will install on 64-bit Windows 7   I found the solution on this site   http   www reactos org forum viewtopic php f 22 amp t 10988  In my case  the installation program was InstallShield 5 X   The issue was that the setup exe program used by InstallShield 5 X is 16-bit   First I extracted the installation program contents  changed the extension from  exe to  zip  opened it and extracted    I then replaced the original 16-bit setup exe  located in the disk1 folder  with InstallShield s 32-bit version of setup exe  download this file from the site referenced in the above link   Then I just ran the new 32-bit setup exe in disk1 to start the installation and my program installed and runs perfectly on 64-bit Windows     You can also repackage this modified installation  so it can be distributed as an installation program  using a free program like Inno Setup 5

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Bottom line at the top  Get newer programs or get an older computer     The solution is simple   It sucks but it s simple   For old programs keep an old computer up and running   Some times you just can t find the same game experience in the new games as the old ones   Sometimes there are programs that have no new counterparts that do the same thing   You basically have 2 choices at that point   On the bright side   Old computers can run  20 - 100 and that can buy you the whole system  monitor  tower  keyboard  mouse and speakers  If you have the patience to run old programs you should have the patience to find what you are looking for in want ads    I have 4 old computers running  2 windows 98  2 windows xp  The my wife and I each have win7 computers

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16 bit installer will not work on windows 7 it s no longer supported by win 7 the most recent supported version of windows that can run 16 bit installer is vista 32-bit even vista 64-bit doesn t support 16-bit installer     reference http   support microsoft com kb 946765

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