Microsoft Picture It incompatability with Windows 7 and alternatives for .mix files.

Anonymous
2009-12-18T06:22:35+00:00

I have been using Microsoft Picture It for years to design tons of graphics for my business and now I have purchased a new pc loaded with Windows 7 and find that my true love Picture It! is not compatable.  I never dreamed this would be the case for a software that isn't even a decade old or that new pc I just spent thousands on would be sitting right back at the store it came from.  I really feel that Microsoft has cheated me out of something I paid for and invested so much work in by making it unusable and it has brought my small business to a standstill.  What other program is available that is compatable with Windows 7 that will allow me to edit and view existing .mix and other Picture It! format files and contain all the capabilities of Picture It?  I would be willing to purchase additional software from Microsoft to make Picture It compatable to Windows 7 if necessary.

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Anonymous
2011-03-14T18:21:06+00:00

Hello all,

I know that you are all disappointed that Microsoft Picture It is not compatible with Windows 7. 

Your feedback would be better heard if you send it to the Windows 7 Feedback site.

http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195

These are your options when software is not compatible:

If the program is not compatible, then you may try to install and run the program in compatibility mode.

Use the following steps:

1)      Right click on the Program

2)      Click on Properties

3)      Click on Compatibility tab

4)      Select Run this program in compatibility mode and select Windows XP, Windows Vista or whatever operating system the program was running successfully.

Refer to the link here: Make older programs run in this version of Windows

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows

If you run Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate version, install Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx) and execute your software in Windows XP.

If you run Windows 7 Home Premium, try VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org) or VMware Player

(www.vmware.com) or any other 3party virtualization software and install a separate copy of Windows XP (either Home Edition or Professional) for that purpose. You can find virtualization software free of charge that will run on Windows 7 Home Premium. 

Sincerely,

Marilyn

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-12T07:56:14+00:00

    See my post a little way back on this thread re Microsoft Digital Imaging,  which is actually Picture It but a revised version. If you can use Picture it you can use this. I've found it fine for all the basics but some more complicated things won't yet work for me. I haven't tried cards.

    John Presland

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-11T18:00:07+00:00

    One of the main reasons why I liked Picture It was because I was able to make cards on it.  I suppose there are other systems available but I found the Picture It system so easy to use and I really miss it.  I have tried programme compatibility but it is no use.  I couldn't risk doing all the technical suggestions as I'd probably get into a dreadful muddle but it is so disappointing not being able to use it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-08T17:27:17+00:00

    I have windows 7, and I run Picture it! I have never worked with a .Mix file so have no idea what that is, as you can tell I'm not computer savy but when I downloaded office and picture it was included. I have had no problem editing your most common photo files, jpgs and the like. I do not remember it asking me to run compatibility mode or anything, it may have. Anyway, I have had no problems, yet anyway.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-03T11:58:11+00:00

    Since my last contribution, I've come across information in the program that says that when the trial is over some of the features will be disabled - which seems to suggest that you still have the basic version. That may be enough. I've come across one slightly "unbasic" feature I can't get to work anyway. In Picture It, I could create a cutout of all parts that were the same colour and  edit that separately. The selected parts changed to a red colour so you could easily see what they were and you were asked to confirm the selection. In Digital Imaging, this seems to have been replaced by the Magic Wand. Instead of changing colour the selected parts are surrounded by indistinct dotted lines, so I can't be sure where they are. There's no direction to confirm the selection, so I'm not sure it has been made. This uncertainty is reinforced by the fact that using edit tools produces no change whatever. Please can anyone help?

    John Presland

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