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       Programs and drivers won't run
       By: Lion_Heart Date: January 30, 2013, 12:34 am
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       I think it's nothing short of a miracle that nearly all of my
       Windows 7 applications and drivers work right out of the gate.
       Microsoft's legacy support is spot on, even in this early
       pre-beta release of Windows 8. However, there is a small portion
       of programs and drivers that just won't work, due to the fact
       that Windows 8's version number jumped from 6.1 (Windows 7) to
       6.2 and some installers' version checks simply refuse to run.
       Solution: I won't bore with the various compatibility modes (as
       you probably tried that already),[font=arial] but rather point
       you to part 3 of my "[/font]Running Windows on a Mac
  HTML http://www.itworld.com/software/213593/running-windows-mac-part-3-complete-how"<br
       />series in which I describe some steps to get rid of version
       checks. More precisely, it details how to remove the Windows
       version check of an installer file using "Orca MSI Editor" or
       remove the version information from "*.inf" driver files. Of
       course, these steps work differently on all drivers and
       installer files, but it'll give you the basic idea of how to
       force your "legacy" software to run on Windows 8 Developer
       Preview and later.
       source :
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