problems - FWW archive on new Windows 11 computer

[Howard Rosenberg]

My new Windows 11 PC won't load the FWW archive disc I bought in 2015 - it worked fine all these years on my previous computer running Windows 10.

Does anybody know of a fix for this?

FWW offered me an upgrade price for 1975 to 2023 on a USB but I'm not so sure about this....
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Thanks.
Howard

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Howard,

I have the FWW archive from 1975-2011. It loaded on to the HD. I do have to click on the hot button about 3 times but it does run eventually. I am running Windows 11.

[Thomas McCurnin]

Does your computer read other disks, and this disk is the only one it cannot read?

[Jamie Buxton]

Can't help on your CD, but on my windows 11 computer, I'm running the FWW archives 1975-2023. It arrived on a USB drive.

[Pat Germain]

In what format are the FWW files? Are they HTML, PDF, or perhaps something else?

[Thomas McCurnin]

My guess is that on the CD, they are pdf format. I would find a friend with a computer and convert those archives to pdf format on a thumb drive.

[Jim Becker]

The "end files" are likely PDF, but there's also likely some kind of access database to keep things organized and allow for search, etc.

[Chris Parks]

I've got the first one they did and I never liked the way it ran from the disc so I extracted all the data files to a hard drive. FWW have a full index available on line to allow you peruse what articles you want to find.

[Jim Koepke]

My old FWW CD stoped working years ago after a system upgrade. That is the problem with libraries on disc with their own Data Base structure.

Legacy software is often lost when a new OS is launched.

jtk

[Bruce Page]

My old FWW CD stoped working years ago after a system upgrade. That is the problem with libraries on disc with their own Data Base structure.

Legacy software is often lost when a new OS is launched.

jtk

My old Badger Pond archive CD never did run well but that was tech from 22 years ago.

[Howard Rosenberg]

Thanks for your insights here, everybody. Just decided to bite the bullet and pay for the USB. Looking forward to getting these materials!

[George Yetka]

You may need to assign something to view PDFs. Windows should be backwards compatible if its a pile of pdfs.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

George, I just checked my FWW archive and they are in pdf format.