Originally Posted by Martin Brown

On 27/01/2016 18:56, Charlie Pridham wrote:
On 27/01/2016 11:53, divingbrit wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:23:59 +0000, Charlie Pridham
wrote:

I recently managed to salvage my old computer onto a windows 7 machine,

Far to much worry and work until you have tried running your printer
software on a newer (not nessary new machine)
Running new computers with the latest OS and putting it into
'compatibilty' mode works in very many cases.

At least try , you may be surprised. Fingers crossed
Lincoln and District Fuchsia Society


I already know it wont work from before, its not the printer, That will
work fine on windows 8 and 10 but the software it uses will not pick up
all the older label files without having to re write them all

That sounds a very unlikely fault. There may be a problem with file
permissions in how the software installs itself or it has very fixed
ideas about where things have to sit that are no longer met.

But filenames haven't changed radically between Win7 and later versions
like they did when FAT32 went out of fashion in favour of NTFS or DOS
8.3 filenames bit the dust. Some directory structures and default
permissions may be tighter though and that might cause issues.

Usually the problem is system level device drivers will not load or
report errors when loading or just fail to work reliably.

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Regards,
Martin Brown