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From: Smoker on 22 Dec 2006 17:31 Hi, I have installed PhotoFinish. This is an old graphics program that was created by Zsoft. The Corel Corp. bought out Zsoft. When I attempt to open PhotoFinish I get the message, "ZSOFT381.DRV not found or not enough memory". I have put the .drv file in the main PhotoFinish folder but it still won't open. I have read that this .drv file wants to communicate directly with the video adapter. If this is so, is there a fix for this problem? Thanks, Smoker
From: Malke on 22 Dec 2006 18:51 Smoker wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed PhotoFinish. This is an old graphics program that was > created by Zsoft. The Corel Corp. bought out Zsoft. > > When I attempt to open PhotoFinish I get the message, "ZSOFT381.DRV not > found or not enough memory". I have put the .drv file in the main > PhotoFinish folder but it still won't open. > > I have read that this .drv file wants to communicate directly with the > video adapter. > > If this is so, is there a fix for this problem? No, sorry. XP will not permit a program to communicate directly with the hardware. You'll need to either find some program that does what you want and is designed for XP or install Virtual PC or VMWare and create a virtual machine running whatever OS PhotoFinish needs such as Win9x. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
From: Smoker on 22 Dec 2006 19:32 "Malke" <notreally(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:OR86LQiJHHA.1280(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Smoker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have installed PhotoFinish. This is an old graphics program that was >> created by Zsoft. The Corel Corp. bought out Zsoft. >> >> When I attempt to open PhotoFinish I get the message, "ZSOFT381.DRV not >> found or not enough memory". I have put the .drv file in the main >> PhotoFinish folder but it still won't open. >> >> I have read that this .drv file wants to communicate directly with the >> video adapter. >> >> If this is so, is there a fix for this problem? > > No, sorry. XP will not permit a program to communicate directly with the > hardware. You'll need to either find some program that does what you want > and is designed for XP or install Virtual PC or VMWare and create a > virtual > machine running whatever OS PhotoFinish needs such as Win9x. > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User Malke, Since I am not familiar with either of these programs I have some questions? What will either of these programs produce? Will it be compatable with XP? Can it exist on the same computer that has an XP system? Are either of these programs certain to solve my problem? Thanks again, Smoker
From: Malke on 22 Dec 2006 20:11 Smoker wrote: > > Malke, > > Since I am not familiar with either of these programs I have some > questions? > What will either of these programs produce? Will it be compatable with > XP? > Can it exist on the same computer that has an XP system? Are either of > these programs certain to solve my problem? Virtual PC and VMWare are programs that allow you to create virtual machines. You can then install whatever operating system is supported (and for which you have a license if required) on the virtual machine. For instance, one of my XP machines runs Virtual PC and I have virtual machines running DOS 6.22, Win3.1, Win95, Win98, and OS/2. Do some reading here: http://www.vmware.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx Depending on how much effort you want to put into this, it might be easier to simply find a program that does what you want. I don't know what PhotoFinish does, but if you are just looking for a free image/photo management program Picasa is quite nice. http://picasa.google.com/ Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
From: Smoker on 23 Dec 2006 06:26
Malke, I went to both sites and Microsoft allows you to download Virtual PC for free. I don't understand that ---I thought that Virtual PC was about $150.00. I cant see Microsoft giving their software away. Do you know if there is a catch? Do you download the software and have to pay more to make it run properly? Sorry for all the questions - I am not familiar with how everything works with this type of program. Thanks, Smoker "Malke" <notreally(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:eRlfL9iJHHA.3936(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Smoker wrote: >> >> Malke, >> >> Since I am not familiar with either of these programs I have some >> questions? >> What will either of these programs produce? Will it be compatable with >> XP? >> Can it exist on the same computer that has an XP system? Are either of >> these programs certain to solve my problem? > > Virtual PC and VMWare are programs that allow you to create virtual > machines. You can then install whatever operating system is supported (and > for which you have a license if required) on the virtual machine. For > instance, one of my XP machines runs Virtual PC and I have virtual > machines > running DOS 6.22, Win3.1, Win95, Win98, and OS/2. Do some reading here: > > http://www.vmware.com/ > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx > > Depending on how much effort you want to put into this, it might be easier > to simply find a program that does what you want. I don't know what > PhotoFinish does, but if you are just looking for a free image/photo > management program Picasa is quite nice. > > http://picasa.google.com/ > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |