While we were back in NYC, my Favorite Uncle in the Whole Wide World showed my dad his now new, favorite game on my cousin’s spanking, brand-new, expensive high-performance computer; a game that I knew my dad would want to play on his computer. Thankfully the computer I bought my parents 2 Christmases ago was powerful enough to run my father’s latest addiction… Spider Solitaire.

*sigh*

You really don’t know torturous it was to watch my uncle and dad play Spider freaking Solitaire on my cousin’s new $2,000 power-rig, watching their eyes dance with joy as the cards were dealt on the 24″ LCD wide-screen monitor. Games this simplistic, that come with an operating system shouldn’t be allowed on a power-rig, let alone be ran by people who would never tax the computing power of a toaster, let alone a state-of-the-art rig like this. It’s wasteful, it’s humiliating (for the computer) and even worse these two probably think that Spider Solitaire is the coolest game to ever come out on a computer… it’s a crime - or at least it should be.

So anywhoo… as soon as we got home I showed Dad that Spider Solitaire came with his computer too and like always made a shortcut on his desktop so he could run it easily without any trouble. Or calling me. He didn’t even notice that this wasn’t the same version of Spider Solitaire that he was blasphemously running on my cousins powerful Vista-rig, since he has XP… but of course I did.

So naturally while he was endlessly playing Spider Solitaire I started looking into if it was possible to get the Spider Solitaire from Vista to work with XP. Since both OS’s, at least on many levels are the same (save for XP is faster and more stable right now) I figured there had to be a way to do it.

And there is!

So dad is now even more happy than before as he is playing Spider Solitaire from Windows Vista on his XP computer! Hey, it has better graphics, not that he’d notice, but it is cool.

Not only can you get Vista’s Spider Solitaire to work on XP but thanks to this guy you can also run the Windows Vista versions of Minesweeper, Freecell, Hearts, Inkball, Shanghi, Solitaire and Purble Place too.

If my dad likes it, so will you. Run Vista games on XP now!