Sidekick 2 and Windows 7

[Goshawk943]

I just bought a laptop for my wife to replace the 7 year old desktop that finally died. She had all of her contacts stored in the cardfiles on Sidekick 2. Since the new laptop doesn't come with a 3.5" floppy drive, I've considered buying an external for her to load SK2 and retrieve her cardfiles saved on a separate disk. Now I've been told that SK2 will not run on Windows 7. Is there a fix or some program that I can download onto her laptop to get this to work? I really, REALLY don't want to sit and manually type in all of those cardfiles (I managed to print each cardfile) into Outlook!!

 

[linney]

Make older programs run in this version of Windows (Windows 7)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows

Help with Windows 7 compatibility problems

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/help/compatibility

Windows 7 Compatibility Center

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/default.aspx

If push comes to shove you might be able to run the program in a Virtual Machine (and use an external Floppy Drive).

Windows Virtual PC
Download Windows XP Mode

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

Windows XP Mode (Windows 7 only, but not any of the Home versions) "You are not eligible to download Windows XP Mode. You must have Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate to run Windows XP Mode". If you have an old XP CD (or other older Windows CD) available you can just download the Virtual Machine and skip the XP Mode download.

This covers the whole gambit of virtual machines in "Home" versions if you want to have a look at it. Of course you will need a licensed copy of XP to install and run in any of them (except XP Mode).

VirtualBox is an impressive VM contender

http://windowssecrets.com/search/?c...ender+&sa=Search&advWS=1&advSAN=1&advPages=15

 

[Goshawk943]

Thanks for all the info. I'll have the external by tomorrow and give it a shot.