I have the Cosmi 20,000 recipes cd. It installs fine on my windows xp computer but when I try to install in on a vista compter it wont install. Is this version vista compatible. If not is there a version that is?

Roy

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• Posted on Sep 30, 2010

SOURCE: I have a 2000 version

I am not surprised, 10 year old software will not work in modern OS.
Your only hope is to either try and install the software under compatability mode ( right click the .exe file on the disc / properties, you will find a compatability tab, click run this program in compatability mode, and choose windows 2000, or win 98)
You could also install the software in a virtual machine. Google virtual machine (VM ware) for more info

SOURCE: I have the cosmi 20,000 recipies perogram in my

i think u are probably out of luck. this software looks like it came from the late 90s and will work with anything up to xp, but vista & win7 are a whole different ballgame. best solution, buy an old laptop with win98 or 2000 or xp super cheap on ebay, or beg one from a friend, and use ur software on it there in the kitchen. that's what i do with my old laptop. works great if u have room in the kitchen lol

also transfer ur fave recipes from 20,000 recipes to a recipe organizer program like mastercook, it's much much better for searching plus u can enter 1000s of new recipes from anywhere. u can get older versions of mastercook for $5 on ebay. version 8 works just great for me with winxp. (WARNING if ur interested in mastercook on ur NEW computer, get version 11, the older ones DON'T work w/Vista or win7.)