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Old March 16th 19, 11:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default Installing WinXP MSN Gaming Zone games into Win 10

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 3/17/2019 3:17 AM, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
On 3/15/2019 11:57 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Is it possible?

The standalone WinXP games can be installed ease. But I failed to
find hints about installing those MSN games, notably Internet Hearts.


As Ken Blake mentioned;
http://winaero.com/blog/get-windows-...or-windows-10/



One comment said it's impossible to install WinXP games. I guess Hyper-V
is the only sure option.


It's impossible to modify signed content and get away with it.
You need the signing key and signing software, which you
would have to steal. If the signing method was "weak" enough,
such as say the usage of MD5, then it could be cracked. Microsoft
has moved to SHA-2 (SHA256) for signing Windows Updates now,
so they take more care with signing than they used to.

When content is not digitally signed, it can be hacked
by people with the knowledge on how to do it.

16 bit content won't run on a 64 bit OS. And some people
mistake the error message as indicating a "problem" with
the EXE which doesn't actually exist. Instead, it's a message
which is telling you that there is no WOW subsystem available
to run 16 bit code on a 64 bit OS. To play old games,
do a multiboot install, and put a 32 bit OS on the same
machine as your 64 bit OS. Then you can play your
old old games there.

This is getting harder to do, as NVidia no longer creates
brand new 32 bit drivers for Windows. You would have to
use a driver which is at least a couple years old now.

Paul
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