On 12 Sep 2018, "Mayayana" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

That shouldn't matter. I wonder if there might just
be some minor glitch. Maybe I'll try setting up
PSP5 on my Win7-64 box and see what happens.
Sometimes older software is made with bad assumptions.
Example: We were talking about this recently somewhere.
Visual Studio 6 works fine on Win7, but it assumes msjava.dll
is present because MS had their own version of Java
back then and I think there was a J++ part to VS. The
fix: Create a dummy, 0-byte file in System named
msjava.dll.

I fooled around with PSP 9 a lot and could never make it work. As I
recall, the issue was that it would look like it was about to start but
the interface would never appear, though it would show as a running
process. I found lots of reports about other people with the exact same
complaint. Nobody seemed to have a solution. Then I gave up and went
with the Virtualbox solution, which is far from ideal.

PSP 7 is a viable next best choice, so I'll try that soon.