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
    2016-05-24T23:20:16+00:00

    Hey Marianne, I kid you not, we have been running windows 7 pro on a Lenova think pad and I installed Picture It 99 from my original 2 cd set and worked perfectly up 'till win 10 upgrade !

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-12T22:49:39+00:00

    Resolved??? Hopefully....so far so good.  Have now been using "Picture It" on Windows 10 64 bit.....flawlessly for 2 weeks. Up until I found this solution it would not function. Freezing, unresponsive and constant crashes.

    Go to search bar and type in: "run programs made for previous versions of windows" this will take you compatability trouble shooter......click "next". Then find "Picture It".....highlight and click "next". Then click "Troubleshoot program". At "problems you notice" check the top option......"program worked on earlier versions......." and click "next".

    ....now is where this makes no sense but has worked for me. You would think we should pick "Windows XP, service pack 3".....but this will NOT work. Picture It will still continue to crash. But I chose "Windows 7".......then click "next" and test program.  As I said....at these settings, Microsoft Picture It has been working perfectly for me for 2 weeks now. I hope this works for you! Picture It is a GREAT program!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-13T03:39:46+00:00

    18I'm glad you got it working, but this is odd: I can't use any setting butXP with Service Pack 3. If I try to run in in Vista mode, I get a message that the registry entry failed, and the program won't open. Same thing if I try to run in in Windows 7 mode.

    It worked fine when I first had Windows 10, before the smelty updates. Now, every time Windows 10 updates itself, I have to run the troubleshooter again and reset the compatibility.

    But when there is absolutely no substitute for Picture It, you just have to do what you have to do to keep it running. I wiped one of my Windows 7 computers and installed Windows XP, then Service Pack 3, and can use not only Picture It, but my high-quality HP scanner and photo quality printer.

    You know those stories about how 25% of the world is still using Windows XP? I'm guessing it's higher. You just lose to much software and too much hardware from Windows 7 on. Yes, I know: half the world is still using that! And that will no doubt continue until Microsoft gets serious about the promise they made us years ago about version compatibility and comes up with a genuine way to make their own older software work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-12-22T15:32:56+00:00

    Try FastStone Image Viewer from www.faststone.org. It does pretty much what Picture It did and its free and easy to use.

    You might be interested in my book "Easy Digital Plant Photography" soon to be available on Amazon, hopefully in a month or so. It deals with photo editing in more detail and tries to make it user friendly,which most publishers don't.

    John Presland

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