Can install is more old games on Windows 7

Until very recently, I was able to install old Windows 95/98 games on my computer Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. But the last I I was not ablle to week. When I get to the Admin area where I wonder if I want the Windows program I click Yes or OK to change, the circle of progress, then it disappears and nothing happens. As a test, I deleted a game I had installed on this computer about a month or two ago and then tried to re - install. The circle appeared and then disappeared. Something has changed on this computer and I don't know where to look it was starting.

I just did a little research. Under process task manager, I see setup.exe * 32 so apparently the installer hangs for some reason any. I have to manually kill the process. I also found an article on MSDN where someone has advised to delete the temp folder. I deleted the contents in Safe Mode, rebooted, but the installer 32 still hangs. I just need to know why it does this.

You will not lose programs but what happens in a repair installation, you must update the MSupdates which should not be very many since you already have SP1.

As a friend, that I suggest to get rid of Norton and use Avast Pro and Malwarebytes together, I use Norton in 2000 also, but it was just an antivirus scanner now it covers basically everything in Windows.
Keep in mind that Windows 8 has no external image backup utility at least not what I saw on my laptop so I don't even bother upgrading my desktop PC that I do not work on.
An image saved my bacon a few days when I wasn't able to create a network or access to one on my internet connection.

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