AboutNeal Ziring Expertise Experienced user of versions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and X3 mostly for
web page graphics, some photo retouching, some technical document
illustration. Right now I only have versions 12 and X3 available to me,
so I'll be best at answering questions about those.
Question I have the Corel Stock photo library 3, a set of 200 CDs with photos, since 1996, but I never used them. Now I want to install them in my computer but the installation freezes. Is it because the software is too old, and incompatible with Windows XP, and what can I do to extract the photos?
Thank you for your help
Hugues
Answer Hugues,
If you have disks that old, the installer was probably built
to run on Windows 95. It probably will not run on Windows XP.
With a great deal of effort, you might be able to run a copy
of Windows 98 in a VMware virtual machine and run the installer
that way. Of course, you'd have to find a copy of Windows 98.
Fortunately, you shouldn't need to do that. If the CDs aren't
badly damaged, then the images on the CDs should still be usable
even if you can't install the search software. The images are
probably in Kodak PhotoCD format. You can still read that
format with any version of Corel PhotoPaint or other modern
image editors.
Anyway, throw in one of the disks, and see if you can browse
the contents. I think it should work.
You'll need some kind of image manager software to keep track
of what is on each CD. That will be a fair bit work, I think.
Fortunately, the Stock Library CDs are organized by topic, so
you should be able to select a CD by its label, and then use
a media manager to view thumbnails and such.
