Need help to play XP on Vista PC games

Hi all, I have a few games for children PC for XP and now all of my computers running Vista.  Is it possible that I have Vista as XP games or not?  Thank you

Hi phariah,

Welcome to the Microsoft Answers community.

Add to that Kevin J Baird says you can try the steps below.

You can check the compatibility of games with vista using the link below.

http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/

You can also try to run your game in XP compatibility mode by using the procedure below.

1 right click on the program icon, and then click Properties,

2. click on the compatibility tab.

For more information visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-vista/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows

You can also run the XP Virtual Machine on your computer by downloading the link below using Virtual PC 2007.

http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04d26402-3199-48A3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en

For more information visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-vista/Virtual-PC-2007-Run-multiple-operating-systems-without-multibooting

Hope this information is useful.

Let me know if it worked.

Thank you, and in what concerns:

Umesh P - Microsoft Support

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