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wodin · 10-20-2015, 08:13 PM

A long time ago in a galaxy far away you used to be able to copy sol.exe into the program files folder and it would run on later versions of Windows or on your work machine if your employer conveniently forgot to include it.

Somewhere around NT or perhaps 2000 they included code to thwart that by having the exe check the windows version. They also added a .dll to reduce having to duplicate code in each game. So no Virginia, you can't just copy the executable from Win7 to Win10 and expect it to work. That's what the hack at http://www.howtogeek.com/122145/what...-in-windows-8/ is about.

10-20-2015, 08:13 PM	#1901
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	A long time ago in a galaxy far away you used to be able to copy sol.exe into the program files folder and it would run on later versions of Windows or on your work machine if your employer conveniently forgot to include it. Somewhere around NT or perhaps 2000 they included code to thwart that by having the exe check the windows version. They also added a .dll to reduce having to duplicate code in each game. So no Virginia, you can't just copy the executable from Win7 to Win10 and expect it to work. That's what the hack at http://www.howtogeek.com/122145/what...-in-windows-8/ is about.