"the version of this file is not compatible with the version of windows you're running"
None of my functional software works on 7. I trouble shot, google searched, and driver guided for months and was at an absolute impasse. The dual boot system was the only solution (and my own idea) that I could come up with other than spending thousands on new software and hardware that had been mass produced without being properly tested yet. Windows 7 is garbage (and 5 times larger than xp). Bloatware and poppycock.
Hyperbole seems to run fine on your system.
If you’re running W7, and need to run older (XP) sofware, you can download a free XP VM image from MS that will run as a VM under Windows 7. You don’t have to dual boot.
Those messages aren’t Window’s fault. That’s the makers of your software doing a crappy job writing their code and Windows detecting it slightly before the crappy code crashes.
64-bit computing isn’t “poppycock”. That alone is worth the move to W7.
Sometimes old, poorly-written software has a problem with newer OS versions.
My oldest remembrance of this was the Atari. The OS had various “entry points” for programs to do things, but many developers went directly into the inner OS locations to do things. Atari updates the OS, changing the internals but retaining the documented entry points. Suddenly things stop working.
In Windows I remember the move to FAT32. One program written in the FAT16 days wouldn’t install because it looked at the hard drive directly to determine free space. A FAT32 drive freaked it out, the error handling resulting in the program reporting no free space. This wouldn’t have happened had the program just properly asked the OS for the amount of free space.
Drivers are a different deal though, almost always OS version specific.