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 bought a new computer with win. xp home ed. and wanted to keep my old corel draw 4.0 suite. I used photopaint a lot. All programs work, corel draw, chart, mosaic, et. except for photopaint. When I try to launch it I get the message: PntVideo.drv not found or not enough memory. The new computer has plenty of memory and I copied the PntVideo.drv file to all of the folders I thought it might need to be. Still get same messase. Oh yes, I also tried the compatability wizard in win. xp but did not fix it. Can you help or point me in the right direction. Corel does not offer support for 4.0 any more.
Answer Thomas,
Sorry, but you won't be able to use CorelDraw 4 on
Windows XP. Details below...
Moving an application from an older version of Windows
(e.g. Win 95) to a newer one (e.g. WinXP) can be very
problematic. There are a number of problems:
1. You cannot be sure that the application will even
run at all. Sure, Microsoft tries to make sure that
most contemporary 32-bit applications will run on
WinXP. Older 32-bit applications may not run, and
16-bit applications (Win 3.1-compatible) will NOT
run on WinXP.
2. Even if the application can hypothetically run on
WinXP, copying a Windows application from one machine
to another is almost always difficult. You would need
to copy all the DLLs that the application installer
originally placed in the Windows folder, as well as
any registry keys that it might have created. Not
impossible, but darn difficult for an application as
complex as CorelDraw.
Now, you saw an error message about PntVideo.drv. That is
probably an instance of number 1. The PntVideo.drv file
is almost certainly special a Win95 driver. Drivers from
Win95 will NOT work on WinXP, ever.
So, I'm sorry, but it looks like WinXP cannot support
CorelDraw 4. You should buy a newer version like 7 or 8.
I just looked, and there were a copy of folks selling
copies of the CorelDraw 8 Suite for about $20 on EBay.
I'm sure you can find it elsewhere on the web. Don't
bother looking for it in stores -- you'll only find
CorelDraw 10 and 11. They're good, but expensive, usually
over $200.
