I have solved the problem or rather have had it solved for me. There is and
add on program called Dos Box. It's really a gem and lets me run my dos
programs within it. I highly recommend iy.

Regards,



"John" <John@TheNOSPAMStewartWeb.com> wrote in message
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> Don't know whether this applies to your problem, but some DOS programs
> require Administrator privileges. It isn't always easy to enable it, but
> if you do Start/All Programs/Accessories and right-click on Command
> Prompt, select Run as Administrator, it will open the DOS window with full
> privileges.
>
> John
>
> "Bullwinkle's news" <bullwinkle@moose.com> wrote in message
> news:hcheca$u2b$1@aioe.org...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a program that was originally a dos program.
>>
>> In order to run it you had to type run then the program's exe file.
>> Worked fine in XP.
>>
>> Can't get it run in 7. Is there a way to run a batch program in 7. I
>> can't seem to find it.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>

I really don't know what kind of problem you had. We were able to get Qbasic
and some really older programs written with it to run.
That's not to say that some of the old dos programs don't have serious
problems. (Usually those that used low level hardware access.)

"Bullwinkle's news" <bullwinkle@moose.com> wrote in message
news:hctf7b$82j$1@aioe.org...
>I have solved the problem or rather have had it solved for me. There is and
>add on program called Dos Box. It's really a gem and lets me run my dos
>programs within it. I highly recommend iy.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> "John" <John@TheNOSPAMStewartWeb.com> wrote in message
> news:hYmdnYp3Ecn1AGzXnZ2dnUVZ_sidnZ2d@centurytel.n et...
>> Don't know whether this applies to your problem, but some DOS programs
>> require Administrator privileges. It isn't always easy to enable it, but
>> if you do Start/All Programs/Accessories and right-click on Command
>> Prompt, select Run as Administrator, it will open the DOS window with
>> full privileges.
>>
>> John
>>
>> "Bullwinkle's news" <bullwinkle@moose.com> wrote in message
>> news:hcheca$u2b$1@aioe.org...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a program that was originally a dos program.
>>>
>>> In order to run it you had to type run then the program's exe file.
>>> Worked fine in XP.
>>>
>>> Can't get it run in 7. Is there a way to run a batch program in 7. I
>>> can't seem to find it.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>