[Gadget]

Is it coming up with any error messages?
If it's an old program, you may have to run it in a "DOS shell":
R-click on the EXE, and go into "Properties". On the 'program' tab, click 'advanced...' and tic "MSDOS Mode"

If there is an error message about memory, then there are some tweaks on the "properties" that can be done to get it to work.

{Some arcane lore...
Start:run and type in "command" - this will bring up a black window with a flashing cursor and a prompt saying somthing like "c:\windows\desktop>_"
You want to navigate to the correct directory;
- Use "cd .." to go back a level {this would change the cursor to "c:\windows>_"
- Use "cd dirname" to go forward one. {this would change the cursor to "c:\windows\dirname>_"
- Use "dir *. /w/p" to list all directory folders that can be used with the "cd" command above {/w=wide /p=page pause}
- Use "dir *.exe /w/p" to see a list of all the .exe files in that directory.

To run the exe, simply type in it's name - eg "HACK" will open/run HACK.EXE
- (The tilda [~ beside the enter key] is used to shorten windows names over 8 chars and those with spaces/nonstandard chars, but if it's an old program, the file names should be <= 8 char long. If you omit the "/w" from the dir command, you will see the 'long filename' as well as the shortened one)
- Type in "Exit" to close the command window}