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Most exe's wont install -> not a valid win32 applicatio
I had Win 7 Ultimate 64bit up an running for a while, but I reinstalled Win 7 Professional 64bit on my machine because of my license. But now I am finding that about half of the programs that installed fine on 7 Ultimate will not install on Win 7 Professional. I keep getting the error " *.exe is not a valid 32bit application ".
I have tried playing around with all of the options in the windows compatibility box, but nothing helped. I am also logged in as Admininistrator. To install Win 7 Pro, I reformatted my hard disk and did a clean install. I have hardly done any surfing except to download printer drivers from HP, and half of those give me the same error message when I try to run their install programs.
I tried installing Windows XP Mode because I had that installed on Ultimate and I thought that not having it might be the problem, but even it wont install. It gives me the same error message.
I am at a loss for why this is happening. I didn't think that there is that big of a difference between pro and Ultimate, but maybe I am wrong.