First of all I am Edward. I always had an interest in the SFC area. In fact, I have SFC Gold, SFC EAW, and SFC OP. Up until recently, my computer just ran XP, but after my hardware upgrade, I am now running both XP and Windows 7 64. I decided to dual boot both XP and Windows 7 in case I would have games that would not run under Windows 7. I recently decided to try to reinstall SFC under Windows 7, but guess what? The setup routine would not run at all and this was confirmed by other posts that indicated the same issue. I do have XP and is currently installed under XP, but why not Windows 7?
I tried all the usual compatibility settings with no luck. After thinking about it, I remembered that Microsoft has the "Application Compatibility Toolkit". I tried this and the setup process that would not run under Windows 7 now runs. The only fix I applied was the compatibilty fix using XP SP3. The normal fix w/o this software would not work, but using the software works?? After reading through many posts on this issue, the above software item was never mentioned so I hope I helped in this area.
Edward K.