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

Thanks, Paul, but if I still have the serial number, which I believe is used for the key code for Corel, esp. as I couldn't find anything else similar, wouldn't that give me other options rather than downloading a cracked one?  As for Linux & most everything else you mentioned, I appreciate the suggestions, but unfortunately I'm unfamiliar with them.  Although I'm not exactly a computer newbie, I'm certainly no expert or advanced user either, so any other suggestions would be very much appreciated - thanks very much again.

DLee

On Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 1:52:02 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
> 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