I don't have Win7 to look at, but in prior recent versions if you right click on the "exe" file for the program and click Properties, there may be a "compatibility" tab where you can choose to "Run as ..." an earlier Windows version. (You can get the same "Properties" by right clicking a desktop icon for the program?)

When that doesn't do any good (ir almost never does) you'll have confirmed once again that Microsoft doesn't care how many of your legacy programs require replacement as long as they can sell you new versions of all of your Microsoft programs.

There have been sporadic reports of success with the method; and the option is rumored to have been continued in Win7; but the reports of success in any recent Windows version are believed to be "urban legends." (i.e. it didn't work with the couple of third party programs I lost when I went to Vista or even with one that tanked in WinXP.)

John