Re: Corel Photo Paint Version 7.0 compatible with Windows 10?

Lee wrote:
> Thanks, but I just got a new Dell Inspiron 3880 PC on Windows 10 on Monday morning, and I've discovered that I can't get Corel Photo-Paint 7.0 to run on it.  I've tried looking for the installation program, and the only apparently possible one that I could find was "Photopnt.exe" in the "Draw Select" folder, but when I click on it, I get the following error or failure message -
> 
> Could not open \corelapp.ini.
> 
> Please check Key:
> 
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Corel\CORELDRAW\7.0"
> Value: "ConfigDir" in the Registry.
> 
> Could anyone PLEASE help?  I would tremendously appreciate any sincere efforts to help - THANKS very much!
> 
> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 4:18:20 AM UTC-5, JJ wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:15:06 -0800 (PST), Lee wrote: 
>>> Sorry if this is a ridiculous question, but does anyone know if Corel 
>>> Photo-Paint Version 7.0 is compatible with Windows 10? I know that it's 
>>> compatible with Windows 7, but is it compatible with Windows 10 as well? 
>>> I do realize that Version 7.0 is very old. Thanks to anyone who tries to 
>>> helpfully reply.
>> I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. There's not much of a crucial 
>> difference between Windows 10 and Windows 7. IMO, Windows 10 is still based 
>> on Vista kernel. 
>>
>> Even if it has a problem, it shouldn't be a severe one, and it should be 
>> solvable using Windows' application compatibility setting.

The most straight-forward solution would be to download
a cracked one. But just about anything could happen if
you did that.

The second most likely option, is to virtualize the hard drive
from the previous computer. You could activate the OS with
DazLoader, while running it in the free Oracle VirtualBox program.

Corel released this, for Linux, long ago. At the time,
Corel was promoting the sale of "Corel Linux", and this
suite was offered to run on Corel Linux, plus Debian and
one other. The problem with running an old Linux like
this, is getting the old OS to run. There would be no
distribution server to get packages from. And this
needs WINE post-installed, to work. And an up-to-date
(for the time) GLIB version. The amount of work and hairloss
to do it this way, would not be easy either. Even though
this package is just sitting there...

Name: CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz
Size: 186901451 bytes (178 MiB)
SHA1: C8DF37FE187A386815246C2212B23B6CE64614B1

I think I already tried to get that one working :-)

The file "Photopnt.exe" is likely to be the runtime, not
the installer. That's why it is searching for that .ini file.

    Paul