I mean programmes installed with XP as the OS - simples?
So you mean you've done a fresh install of Windows 7, and you're magically expecting the XP software you installed back when you used to boot into XP to work ?
If you installed the software as you should, under Windows 7, then I can't see a reason why it shouldn't work unless there are some weird library dependencies.
Maybe you'd like to fire up Paint and sketch us a diagram of how said software inter-relates to Windows 7 and your legacy XP system.... sometimes a picture = 1000 words as they say ;-)
Out of interest, none of the 'old' Office suite runs in Win7 with a changed XP directory name, so I assume some part of the installation depends on the XP OS.
Yes, but did you actually install it under Windows 7 ? Or did you just rename the "old" Windows directory and hope for the best ?
If the latter, then I'm not at all surprised you broke it.