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[Flying Dice]

Same for me when I had a craptop that would occasionally bork its own network settings. Other than that it's been entirely useless.

[Ghills]

You shouldn't really have issues with any XP-era games on modern OSs, outside of copy protection (which likely wouldn't work in a VM with an emulated optical drive anyway), and most people consider it totally ethical to crack the copy-protection on a game you own.

There are tons of XP-compatible games that don't work on any later Windows OS. It's not just copy protection, the underlying driver model and a few other systemic things changed between XP and 7.  Plus, it seems like a bunch of game-specific workarounds got pulled out of the OS.

[Thief^]

There are tons of XP-compatible games that don't work on any later Windows OS. It's not just copy protection, the underlying driver model and a few other systemic things changed between XP and 7.  Plus, it seems like a bunch of game-specific workarounds got pulled out of the OS.

Examples?

Games shouldn't care about the driver model changes (they should only interact with devices through the Windows API / Direct-X, which didn't break compatibility) outside of copy-protection drivers (and I already mentioned copy protection). So that just leaves the wonderfully vague "a few other systemic things" and "a bunch of game-specific workarounds".

Some games had 16-bit installers (which don't work on 64-bit Windows) but Microsoft actually put a compatibility shim in later Windows versions which recognises all the known generic 16-bit installers and substitutes them for 32-bit versions so that they can install successfully.

The only issue I know of outside of copy-protection is some 256-colour games have technicolour issues on Windows 7, but there are workarounds for that (and it may be fixed on later Windows versions anyhow, I haven't checked).

[WillowLuman]

So I had about 500 gigs free yesterday, and suddenly today it's full. I try deleting some large files, but either it didn't free up any space, or it filled up again within a few minutes. Steam is claiming it doesn't have enough disk space to perform installations.

[AzyWng]

There should be a few programs like WinDirStat that can help you figure out where/why the 500 gigs have gone.

EDIT: On my computer, some executable files refuse to run. I've double clicked them, I've run as administrator, I've gone into the program files and run the executables from there, but the result is always the same: The program appears for a few seconds in background processes before disappearing.

Can anyone help or provide advice on what to do?

[Thief^]

What are the executables?

[AzyWng]

Sorry for posting a second issue while not responding to the first. The first is the least of my worries.

I'm trying to get the Windows Driver Utility Updater from Intel, but when I run the launcher, I get an error message! Here's the specific error messages I found when digging through the log file.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[19F8:2448][2016-08-26T22:01:09]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to install MSI package.
[19F8:2448][2016-08-26T22:01:09]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to execute MSI package.
[1178:150C][2016-08-26T22:01:09]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to configure per-machine MSI package.
[1178:150C][2016-08-26T22:01:09]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to execute MSI package.
[1178:150C][2016-08-26T22:01:10]i399: Apply complete, result: 0x80070643, restart: None, ba requested restart:  No

[BigD145]

MSI's are generally for 64 bit OS.

[Lord Shonus]

MSI's are generally for 64 bit OS.

MSI has been a standard installer format for almost seventeen years, and has not a single thing to do with the bit size of the OS.

[Thief^]

Maybe it needs to be run as admin?

[Arx]

Try running as admin, as Thief says, and check the file isn't somehow corrupt.

[Xantalos]

Right, I've been trying stuff for the past several hours and nothing's working. Already googled the issue I'm having and by all indications it's unresolvable and I'm a dummy for having it happen in the first place, but hey I might get a lucky shot.

So I've been working in Wordpad (I am a lazy person otherwise I'd have gotten something else) for the last month or so writing a thing, got to around 5k words. Computer up and crashed while I had it open (I was trying to download a dropbox file which ended up being a folder ... but it tried to open it in Microsoft word, which I don't have on the computer. But I found the folder itself downloaded safely later. Point is, the strain caused the crash) and when I turned the computer back on, a most unpleasant thing had happened to my document - it went blank, for lack of a better word. It's the same size file as before, text color's the same though it changed font from Calibri to Courier New, and you can highlight the spaces where the text should be, there's just nothing there.

I've tried system file check, antivirus to see if I accidentally a Trojan somehow, uploading the file onto OneDrive (Windows 10, didn't have any choice it came with the computer and I don't care enough to get it off) and redownloading it, no change. Copy and pasting yields nothing, various file recovery programs do nada, etc.

Like I said, I googled the issue and it's by far not an uncommon one. Unfortunately by all indications it's unfixable if I don't have a backup, which I didn't.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forum/helproom-1/data-missing-wordpad-documents-4271162/
The guy in that link mentioned that he opened up his fucked file in Word and got a bunch of blank squares, and in Office only to get a bunch of #s. Unfortunately I haven't found a case where the thing was actually fixed.

So, any last-ditch ideas, or should I just accept fate's genitals and rewrite the thing?

Apologies for any incoherence, I'm real tired at the moment.

one more info piece: selecting all the 'text' and underlining it does result in the thing being underlined. It's just that it's only underlining blank space for some reason.

[Aklyon]

Does anything happen if you ctrl+a and paste into notepad++ or something?

[BigD145]

MSI's are generally for 64 bit OS.

MSI has been a standard installer format for almost seventeen years, and has not a single thing to do with the bit size of the OS.

I see the same software packages with 32 bit exes and 64 bit msi. I know msi has been around awhile but the trend in the past half dozen years or more has been to use them for 64 bit versions of software.

[Xantalos]

Does anything happen if you ctrl+a and paste into notepad++ or something?

Nope, but if I open it in notepad you still get the blank spaces n shit