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Hiow to Play 'Age Of Kings' (AoE II) under Windows 7 ?

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2x3i5x:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/81tfxe/running_original_age_of_empires_2_on_windows_7/ --> in case it helps

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->2i3i5x
I figured out where the refit posts had gone - I'm not signed up to reddit so most references appear blacked out and I have search manually for them.  As to using VMs, I tried it once, to play SimCity but it was just awkward although it worked.

But I HAVE A NEW PROBLEM (related).  I thought I'd try running AoK in W7 Safe mode, but as I wasn't prepared to take down this computer I installed Age of Kings on a similar one (again, an HP Pavilion dm4 8GB RAM and core i5-450M but with a different ver of W7 and probably differently set up.).  Installation was OK except with one disc that these machines have problems with (always, at some point in installation it says "...write error...check your HD is not full or that the file is not in use" neither of which can possibly be the case).  But I couldn't get the game to start at all.  Even using the batch file to turn off explorer.exe (see the reddit post on this - https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/81tfxe/running_original_age_of_empires_2_on_windows_7/).  The batch file file runs, but the game still doesn't open.  No compatibility options work.  Even running in safe mode the game doesn't work.  Not a hint on this machine (I think it's a dm4-1100sa ?).  There must be something I have forgotten to set up - can anyone spot it ?

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7.September.2019

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