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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

And There's More From Where That Came From!

Rodger the Real King of France 5/27/2015 10:03:00 AM 12 Comments

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Anonymous said...: Minesweeper. 7900 games played and a 74% win ratio.
Tim; 5/27/15, 4:32 PM
Skoonj said...: Speaking of Minesweeper, when I had Windows 7, I played that and Solitaire all the time. Now with Windows 8 I can't find them. Any idea where I can get them?; 5/27/15, 5:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Select the 'gaames' tile Skoonj. They load from there.
Tim; 5/27/15, 6:24 PM
Skoonj said...: Tim, there are a million game titles, but nothing remotely resembles them.; 5/27/15, 6:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Skoonj - On my Win7 pro, it's under
I've also copied them from one computer to another on a thumb drive. They didn't seem to need anything but the app - no registry or aux files.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick, barely surviving the ravages of advancing technology; 5/27/15, 8:02 PM
Skoonj said...: Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick, where under W7P was it? Sounds like the way to go.; 5/27/15, 8:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Sorry Skoonj, I'm HTML ignorant and I did something wrong above. In plain English, go to START, go to ALL PROGRAMS,then GAMES and there is a drop down list.
My GAMES were initially turned off at installation. Go here to see how to initialize:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/where-games#1TC=windows-7
Hope this helps
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 5/27/15, 11:22 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: skoonj

SEE& SOLTAIRE.jpg; 5/28/15, 10:00 AM
Skoonj said...: Raja, my W8 doesn't have those games listed. I'll be trying with what it was that Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick posted.; 5/28/15, 3:46 PM
Skoonj said...: I found the games on my old computer and used a thumb drive to transfer them. They don't work, but I will research ways to get them to work.; 5/28/15, 9:08 PM
Anonymous said...: When I got a Win8 tablet, I found that Win7 games won't work without editing the binary. There are instructions, but the tools aren't so easy.
I found:
Win7GamesForWin8-Setup.exe
I was going to post a link, but for some reason didn't save it.
You can see it on the third post down:
http://www.eightforums.com/gaming/20910-win-7-games-win-8-a.html
Works, feels and plays like Win7.
-bravokilo; 5/29/15, 4:09 AM
Anonymous said...: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-gaming/windows-7-games-on-windows-81/c435a80d-260c-4d61-8a5d-6192927442aa; 5/29/15, 4:32 AM

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And There's More From Where That Came From!

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