If you are the typical PC user you will normally be provided with the basic application software necessary to get standard - if there really is such a thing - levels of system operation. If, however, you are heavily involved in an industry or profession and you rely heavily on certain applications for your daily professional life you may find, from time to time that you need to continue their usage no matter what.
Dealing with these kinds of key applications often is instrumental in your success and requiring that you continue to need access to them in their original installed version. If true you may not be willing to upgrade to newer versions unless the new functionality is worth the relearn time. It may simply not be worth it to totally relearn a new application, especially a complex one.
I should like to cite a real life example. I am a qualified Graphic Artist, although I do not do this as a professional service for hire, I do all my own GA work and develop all my own marketing materials. I have used PageMaker from Adobe for years and I have an extremely high capability and productivity level in this application. When Adobe replaced PageMaker with INDesign I was neither willing to pay the price in time or money to learn a foreign application. Therefore I chose to maintain my usage of PageMaker and do whatever was necessary. If you are in this category of involved user to a high degree then this article is for you.
The first thing that you must understand is that this is ultimately a self-defeating strategy as eventually you will be unable to continue using an application at some point. Therefore, this article is intended only to support your ‘borrowed time’ usage when needed.
The first thing you need to deal with is your OS on the PC in question. In my example above, PageMaker does not run native mode in anything beyond Windows XP. It is not supported and will not launch on Vista or Win7. So, unless you are a programmer you will typically be dealing with the need to continue using a PC with an out of date OS. That means, among other things that getting data onto and off this system will almost always involve a manual or “email it to yourself” kind of hand job.
You will also be constantly dealing with other non-support issues - from a host of perspectives - including everything from fonts to color palettes. This includes everything from access and output capabilities - creating a pdf as an example, does not function in PageMaker 7 on XP the way it now functions in InDesign on Vista or 7. Therefore I now use a commercial pdf creator but it has some variance from Adobe. This is the kind of issue that you will be dealing with constantly.
Finally, an older PC will require other unrelated maintenance regarding the application you are continuing to use. Closely maintain your Windows Registry and use commercially available registry software to perform the needed registry fix operations. This will allow you to achieve the necessary Registry Repair and you can continue to use an older PC running an unsupported application.
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Author Resource:-> James Roberts is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to use registry software and best ways to fix registry that work fast!
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