"The Handle is Invalid"?

[Peter Jason]

I am trying to open files on my old XP machine for an application on
my new Windows7 64bit machine.

All I get is the error:
"The handle is invalid"

How can I fix this?
Please help,
Peter

 

[Roy Smith]

I am trying to open files on my old XP machine for an application on
my new Windows7 64bit machine.

All I get is the error:
"The handle is invalid"

How can I fix this?
Please help,

Vague questions either get vague answers of ignored around here. If
you have a question and expect to get it answered it would be very
helpful if you provided as much detail about your problem as
possible.

In most cases newer version of a particular program can easily work
with files created by an older version, but it's not so the other way
around. The newer version of a program maybe saving it's files in a
slightly different format that the older version has no way of
understanding what's going on. This may very well be your situation,
but without knowing some specifics, it's difficult to say for sure.

 

[Paul]

I am trying to open files on my old XP machine for an application on
my new Windows7 64bit machine.

All I get is the error:
"The handle is invalid"

How can I fix this?
Please help,
Peter

When you launch programs on a newer Windows OS, sometimes there
is a "compatibility" option you can use to start a program. The
intention is to "smooth out the wrinkles" on running an older
program.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

Limitations on that exist. For example, if you install a 64 bit OS,
it won't run 16 bit applications. The 64 bit OS can run
32 bit applications, because it has Windows on Windows (WOW64). But
that doesn't extend to 16 bit programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_On_Windows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOW64

If you install a 32 bit OS instead, then it may continue to run
16 bit code. So that's one of the differences between installing
64 bit, versus installing 32 bit. Most people install 64 bit, if
they have more than 4GB of memory installed. For some reason,
the company that made my Win7 laptop decided it would be
fun to install the 64 bit version of the OS, even though the
installed RAM is only 3GB.

The 64 bit may have other requirements, such as signed driver
installation. Perhaps with the 32 bit, it might not be absolutely
necessary. (I don't know all the details on this.)

Paul