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Windows 7 & M'soft works Suite 2006

Aug 21, 2010 1:23AM PDT

Dell community forum has now ceased to be as of 8th July.
Is the above suite, which I have on Vista, compatible with Windows 7...?
I have googled the question and apparently it is.
However the answer has not been verified.
Cheers,
Art

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I think it is.
Aug 21, 2010 1:26AM PDT

But I didn't try because I don't have it. Did you? And what happened?

Kees

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Windows 7 & M'soft works Suite 2006
Aug 21, 2010 1:54AM PDT

Not tried yet Kees in case It screws up the laptop with windows 7 !!
Should I have any worries in that respect..?
Art.

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Windows 7 & M'soft works Suite 2006
Aug 21, 2010 3:43AM PDT

Threw caution to the wind and gave it a go.
No joy though.
The disc was read by Roxio, D drive (DVD RW)
The only option was to burn it or read it.
I'm stumped...!!
The laptop is Dell Inspiron 1545

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Even in Windows 7 ...
Aug 21, 2010 7:02AM PDT

you should be able to open a disk in My Computer or Windows Explorer (or whatever it's called there, sorry) and doubleclick a file called setup.exe or so.

In fact, I'm amazed Roxio comes in. Maybe you set Roxio as the default for opening a disk? The program doesn't come with Windows, so you must have done it (I'd nearly say: messed up) yourself.

Kees

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Windows 7 & M'soft works Suite 2006
Aug 22, 2010 1:13AM PDT

Yes, tried that Kees, but the system froze twice for some reason or other. Persevered and it eventuall installed 4 out of the 5 programme discs, but you had to manually select Word 2002 otherwise it would not install.
All now seems fine.That has saved me