Installing old program on Windows 8.1 - Program requires Win NT Service Pack

[Terry Betts]

I am trying to install MGI Photosuite II on a Windows 8 computer. It pops up a message saying it needs Windows NT Service Pack 3 or better before it can install. I thought a service pack was just an update to a OS? What do I need to do to install this program? Thanks!

 

[Spectre694]

Just looked it up no one has made a WINE build for MGI Photosuite (any version) building your own would be quite difficult if it could even be done for that program.

Roxio owns MGI now so maybe one of their program sis similar to it?

 

[Terry Betts]

Is there a way to install whatever files this program needs? Let's just pretend for a moment that this was a newer program. I can't download what it needs off the internet instead of using some form of emulation?

Nope. It is looking for specific Windows subsystems that do not exist in anything more current than XP. Maybe not even that.

It's not a newer program. We can't make it so, without rewriting the whole thing. Which will not happen.

Compatibility Mode
or
Virtual Machine
or
New graphics application.

As you said, it requires specific files. It worked on the old Windows XP computer, so why can't I copy over those files?

 

[Terry Betts]

Just looked it up no one has made a WINE build for MGI Photosuite (any version) building your own would be quite difficult if it could even be done for that program.

Roxio owns MGI now so maybe one of their program sis similar to it?

Thanks, that's not a bad idea. A newer version of this program or a program by the same people might work and might not be so different from this one.

 

[Spectre694]

Is there a way to install whatever files this program needs? Let's just pretend for a moment that this was a newer program. I can't download what it needs off the internet instead of using some form of emulation?

Nope. It is looking for specific Windows subsystems that do not exist in anything more current than XP. Maybe not even that.

It's not a newer program. We can't make it so, without rewriting the whole thing. Which will not happen.

Compatibility Mode
or
Virtual Machine
or
New graphics application.

As you said, it requires specific files. It worked on the old Windows XP computer, so why can't I copy over those files?

Because those files are a part of the OS requiring the entire OS to work how the program expects it to. The same reason I can't just run a Linux app on my windows PC by copying some files over to it.

 

[Terry Betts]

Is there a way to install whatever files this program needs? Let's just pretend for a moment that this was a newer program. I can't download what it needs off the internet instead of using some form of emulation?

Nope. It is looking for specific Windows subsystems that do not exist in anything more current than XP. Maybe not even that.

It's not a newer program. We can't make it so, without rewriting the whole thing. Which will not happen.

Compatibility Mode
or
Virtual Machine
or
New graphics application.

As you said, it requires specific files. It worked on the old Windows XP computer, so why can't I copy over those files?

Because those files are a part of the OS requiring the entire OS to work how the program expects it to. The same reason I can't just run a Linux app on my windows PC by copying some files over to it.

Then is there a way to point the program to the new version of those files in Windows 8? It said in the error message that a newer version could also work.

 

[USAFRet]

Lastly:
Do not assume 'Dad' is clueless regarding new applications. He's using Windows 8.1, right?

There is nothing in MGI Photosuite II that does not also exist in any graphics application from this decade. It may be called something else, but it is there.

 

[USAFRet]

Then is there a way to point the program to the new version of those files in Windows 8? It said in the error message that a newer version could also work.

Newer version of 'what'? Windows NT?

 

[Terry Betts]

Then is there a way to point the program to the new version of those files in Windows 8? It said in the error message that a newer version could also work.

Newer version of 'what'? Windows NT?

Sure. If it exists.

 

[USAFRet]

Then is there a way to point the program to the new version of those files in Windows 8? It said in the error message that a newer version could also work.

Newer version of 'what'? Windows NT?

Sure. If it exists.

It does not.

 

[Spectre694]

Then is there a way to point the program to the new version of those files in Windows 8? It said in the error message that a newer version could also work.

Newer version of 'what'? Windows NT?

Sure. If it exists.

Nope Windows has basically been rewritten at least twice since then could be more I'm not 100% sure on the number of times.