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
    2014-09-05T08:42:29+00:00

    Thanks. Sadly, I don't know what OEM  and SP1 mean in relation to Picture IT. Apart from that, I think what you are advising is what I did, but it wouldn't install, let alone run. Perhaps my PictureIt wasn't the older version you refer to.

    John Presland

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-02T22:11:04+00:00

    I'm glad you can use it.

    I haven't explored all the features yet - so far I have only done the things I did on Picture It.

    There may be a lot more to experiment with later.

    Be safe, take care.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-02T21:44:50+00:00

    This is one of the best ones yet!

    Although it does not have all the publishing features as PIP, it's an easy picture fixer.

    Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-09-02T02:24:09+00:00

    This all seems confusing to me - I have finally found a free photo shop program almost as simple to use as Picture It. There are videos of each action you want to perform  - I have only had to check one video for instruction. There are a lot more things you can do on this program along with all the things I did on Picture it.  I will be doing a lot of exploring on this new program.

    The program is called PhotoScape - I have been using it for a couple of days now - so far it has met all my

    needs in a photo shop program.

    You might want to try it out - no junk programs loaded with it.

    Here is their address; however, I  used    photoscape,com   

    http://www.photoscape.org/

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