Making a copy of Solitaire...

Yes, by purchasing an upgrade version of Windows Vista
and upgrading your wife's Windows XP PC to Windows Vista.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"silas" <> wrote in message news:...
My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto her
WinXP computer?

Thanks.

silas

You can try it, but I doubt that it will run. The files are located in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

The XP games will run on Vista, at least the few that I have tried.


"silas" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
> machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto
> her WinXP computer?
>
> Thanks.
>
> silas

My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto her
WinXP computer?

Thanks.

silas

"silas" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
> machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto
> her WinXP computer?
>
> Thanks.
>
> silas


Probably not...

Vista Solitaire is located in c:\program files\microsoft games\solitaire,
where c: is the drive on which your program files directory exists.

Lang

"silas" <> wrote...
> My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
> machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto
> her WinXP computer?

Hi Silas

Vista Solitaire cannot run on XP.

Soliaire.exe has dependencies on several operating system DLLs, which just
don't exist on XP: SLC.DLL (the Software Licensing DLL), DWMAPI.DLL (the
Desktop Window Manager in Vista) and XINPUT9_1_0.DLL (the XNA Controller -
"XNA" is Microsoft's new Gaming API, based around XBox and Vista). In turn,
these depend on entry points which don't exist in XP DLLs; so, it's not
simply a matter of copying these 3 DLLs across as well.

As other replies commented, there are licencing issues which probably
prevent you from doing it legally. But even if you ignore the legal aspect,
from a basic technical angle, Vista's Solitaire.exe simply cannot run on XP.

Sorry for the bad news. If you're feeling brave you could upgrade your wife
to Vista (personally, I've left my wife running XP on her PC ... my support
obligations are already way too high).

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Solitaire\Solitaire.exe

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"silas" <> wrote in message
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> My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
> machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto
> her WinXP computer?
>
> Thanks.
>
> silas

Silas;
Search Google.
There are probably many types of Solitaire available for free and
hopefully one will suit your wife's needs.

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"silas" <> wrote in message
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> Dave, you're right. I tried copying it onto her machine. Didn't
> work. Thanks anyway.
>
> Carey, I've been once or twice accused of extravagance but I'd
> surely be guilty of foolishness if I were to waste the money and
> time needed to upgrade to Vista just so my wife can play a different
> version Solitaire. Even she would frown on that.
>
> silas

Dave, you're right. I tried copying it onto her machine. Didn't work. Thanks
anyway.

Carey, I've been once or twice accused of extravagance but I'd surely be
guilty of foolishness if I were to waste the money and time needed to
upgrade to Vista just so my wife can play a different version Solitaire.
Even she would frown on that.

silas

"Dave" <> wrote in message
news:...
> You can try it, but I doubt that it will run. The files are located in
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games
>
> The XP games will run on Vista, at least the few that I have tried.
>
>
> "silas" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> My wife loves playing the version of Solitaire on my Vista Home Premium
>> machine. Is there a way I can locate and copy it to a disk to load onto
>> her WinXP computer?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> silas
>