Hi everyone a while back I changed from windows 7 to windows Vista before with windows 7
The screen was a normal blue green mix color. but since changing to windows Vista the screen
stays black. the icons don't change just the screen.
my son said he was going to look for a newer Windows Vista disk he said the disk I have is to
Old for the previous windows 7 operating system I had in it before does any one know where
I can get a newer windows Vista disk or am I out of luck if anyone has one I would be willing
To purchase it from you. any help you can give me will be appreciated.

Thank You

Bluto

Ps the black screen looks yucky.

Can you explain why you reverted back to Vista? I hope you're not using it on the internet! If you installed Vista over Windows 7, it shouldn't matter what was on it before. It's possible there are some driver issues. There is no "newer" Vista. Vista is so old, I barely remember for sure, but I believe you can change the background screen or desktop to be whatever you want. Try right clicking anywhere on the desktop and then clicking Personalize. I'm going to have to do some checking though to be sure.

Hi Draclvr

I changed back to vista because most of the games I have run only on vista, an some won't run on Win 7 I play my games
On a Desk Top and only go on line with my laptops which have 7 already built in. The desktop screen has the message activate
now but my son did that once already, and it somehow reverted back to the black background I can change colors but they
don't stay he said vista only color I black.

let me know what you find out

thank you
Bluto

Vista is just about the last operating system I would have recommended you revert back to. If you wanted to go back to an old system, you should have installed XP with Service Pack 2 or 3.

Is there any kind of message about why it won't activate? I found several things indicating that sometimes the key is already in use.

I am puzzled by the fact that Bluto says he had trouble running games on Windows 7. In my experience Vista and Windows 7 are pretty much interchangeable when it comes to running games, i.e., if it says it runs on Vista, it will also run on Windows 7. And, if anything, Windows 7 appears to be even better for running games without issues. Maybe this is just my observation and not that of other people, though.

I've found the same thing on Windows 7, especially with older games, Marian. And Vista is just not great for gaming. I worked on several of those old systems and it was a huge PITA!

The only reason I can think why Vista would play a game while Windows 7 wouldn't
is if you switched from 32-bit Vista to 64-bit Windows 7. If you're playing old
games from the 1990's that use 16-bit code, those won't work on 64-bit Windows.
Not outside of emulation anyway. There are even some games from the mid and
late 1990's that use 16-bit code, in the installer if not in the game itself, simply
because the developers never bothered updating their code to 32-bit because
at the time it was working.

So if you're using an early version of something like Titanic: Adventure Out of
Time that says it's for Windows 3.1 / 95 you'll probably have trouble with it if
you're trying to run it on a 64-bit operating system.


I am curious what games these are and how old.

Overall I'm surprised you had much issue with Windows 7.
Most people much prefer Windows 7 to Vista.
I've been able to play pretty much any new or updated adventure game on
64-bit Windows 7.
However I don't attempt 1990's games made for Windows 3.1 on it.

I don't hate Vista or anything, and I'm curious how it would run on a desktop
instead of a laptop.
But the time to install it and find out is long gone.
Also I doubt it would be better than XP.

I've played more adventure games on Windows 98 and XP than any other
versions of Windows, including Windows 7 and 8.1.

Jenny 100

I am not having trouble with the game itself it is just the start up screen when I had win 7 in it
The Start up screen I could change the desk top color without a problem but the game Culpa Innata
would not run correctly. on restart
But with Vista in the system now it does, but the start up screen is Black but the icons on the side of
The screen are ok just the screen is Black.
I tried control panel with a blue it stayed until shut down then on restart black came back and that's
The way it stays now.

Bluto

If it won't change, then it is not activated from what I have found. I think you would have been much better off to have put XP SP3 on this computer.