How To Use Unsupported Applications On Your PC
Typical PC users are provided with a starter set of applications that allow most people to function at a basic level. If you are somewhat heavily involved in your industry or profession you may find that certain commercially available applications not provided by the manufacturer are nonetheless key to your profession or work day.
Dealing with these kinds of key applications often is instrumental in your success and requiring that you continue to need access to them in their original installed version. Therefore you may not be open to upgrading to the latest version of the application unless its new-version capabilities are a godsend. You many not be willing to pay the price of time and/or money to upgrade.
I should like to cite a real life example. I know a qualified Graphic Artist, although they do not do it as a professional service for hire, they do all their own GA work and develop all their own marketing materials. She has used PageMaker from Adobe for years and can virtually fly through even complex development functions in minutes rather than hours as many of her contemporaries do. However, when Adobe stopped supporting PageMaker – ending at Version 7, replacing the Application with InDesign, she was neither impressed with the change or willing to invest hundreds. Therefore she chose to maintain her current copy of PageMaker and do whatever was necessary. If you fall into this category then this article is for you.
The first thing that you must understand is that this is ultimately a self-defeating strategy as eventually you will be unable to continue using an application at some point. Therefore, this article is intended only to support your borrowed time usage when needed.
Your first point of understanding is the version of Windows that the application is running on. In my example above, PageMaker does not run native mode in anything beyond Windows XP. It is not supported and will not launch on Vista or Win7. So, unless you are a programmer you will typically be dealing with the need to continue using a PC with an out of date OS. It also means dealing with a certain level of inconvenience when transferring data to and from the older PC.
You will also be constantly dealing with other non-support issues – from a host of perspectives – including everything from fonts to color palettes. This includes everything from access and output capabilities – creating a pdf as an example, does not function in Page Maker 7 on XP the way it now functions in Design on Vista or 7. Therefore I now use a commercial pdf creator but it has some variance from Adobe. This is the kind of issue that you will be dealing with constantly.
With an out of date PC you must regularly update the system registry. Closely maintain your Windows Registry and use commercially available registry software to perform the needed registry fix operations. This will allow you to achieve the necessary Registry Repair and you can continue to use an older PC running an unsupported application.
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