How to disguise XP when game playing

This is a discussion about How to disguise XP when game playing in the Windows Games category; I have a friend who's using XP Home which won't allow her to install and play one of her fav games, Cyber Tarot by Multicom Publishing. Is there any sleight-of-hand trick that will cause the game to think it's in a Win9x environment and allow the game to be played? As a user of Win2K I can do this most effectively4 ...

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I have a friend who's using XP Home which won't allow her to install and play one of her fav games, Cyber Tarot by Multicom Publishing. Is there any sleight-of-hand trick that will cause the game to think it's in a Win9x environment and allow the game to be played? As a user of Win2K I can do this most effectively4 by using the APCOMPAT.exe file from the install disc and pull the wool over a particular application's eyes making it think it's being run on 98 or any of several NT4.0+__SP. She'd rather avoid the hassle of creating a partition for a dual boot scenario if that is at all feasible. When she asked me about this, I said that I knew right where to go for the best possible advice on the matter - the uber OS mavens at NTC! Thanks once again for sharing your wisdom, fella's!

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XP have build-in compatibility mode for older games and programs.
 

Quote:To set the compatibility properties for a program manually:
1.
Right-click the program icon on your desktop or the shortcut on the Start menu for the program you want to run, and then click Properties.
 
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Click the Compatibility tab, and change the compatibility settings for your program.

 
Run Older Programs on Windows XP