That's funny. really...

Posted Jan 26, 2012 19:56 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: That's funny. really... by Cyberax
Parent article: Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XII

> I actually have the original C&C disks. I've tried to install C&C from them, but disks have become unreadable over the years. So I downloaded it from TPB and installed it just fine in Win7 in compat mode.
Well, it didn't work when I tried to install it from my disks. Perhaps this issue only applies to the german version or something.

That's funny. really...

Posted Jan 29, 2012 15:00 UTC (Sun) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (1 responses)

Hm... Emboldened by this discussion I tried to install any of my collection of Corel Painter disks on my Windows 7 installation. None would start. Items tried range from a ten year old Corel Painter Essentials disk to a Corel Painter X trial -- we're now at Corel Painter XII, btw.

We can blame Corel, of course... Their products have never had a reputation for being solid, well-built applications, but then, wasn't the contention in this thread that on Windows that's not necessary, since Windows keeps everything running through amazing binary compability through the ages?

Have you tried the usual tricks?

Posted Jan 29, 2012 16:12 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Have you tried to run setup in "Windows XP" compatibility mode? Corel Painter 11 works fine. You can find and start setup.exe directly. In general the appropriate help page can help you.

AFAICS from forum posts Corel Painter Essentials works fine with Windows 7... with the exception that it insists in scanning the whole system drive at each program start. Which is sloow as you can guess (45min startup time is not unheard of).

Yes, Windows tries to stay compatible very hard - but it can not fix all the bugs in all the programs.