I'm sorry to tell you that lots of stuff that worked beautifully on windows 95 and 98 will not work with the new windows XP operating program. I don't think there is a fix for it, at least I haven't seen one, because I had the same problem when my old computer had it's hard drive melt down last october. Usually you have to go buy the upgraded versions of programs, :-(. I have lots of wonderful information on discs that I can't get to unless I purchase an external plug in disc drive because over here all the new desktops for the last couple of years have only CD drives. It is indeed frustrating.