Installing 16-bit application

[BeaverBob]

I purchased a new computer with Windows XP Professional, and am trying to install a 16-bit Windows application which worked fine under Windows 95 and Windows 98SE. The new computer just goes off into never-never land when I tell it to "run a:setup.exe", where a: is the floppy drive. The computer doesn't actually lock up, but the only thing I can do is to go to task manager and select "end task" to make anything happen.

There must be some special "trick" to get this to work.

 

[micker377]

At the top of this page, click on "Search". In the search field, put "16 bit programs" (without the quotes). You will find many pages referring to this problem.