Hmm
If its not installing it could be that its an old DOS game that would run under W95 but not XP. WHats the name of the game?

you can make old DOS games run on XP by using a thing called DOSbox. It runs a DOS enviroment in an XP window and you can run the game there.

Get DOSbox free here www.dosbox.com/

You will need to read instructions as it is not quite straightforward, but its not to hard.

Also you can find lots of old games on abandonware sites for free.

www.abandonia.com/ is one of the big ones. These sites let you download games that are classed as "abondonware" i.e. the original publisher is long gone and no one owns the rights anymore.
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 18:05, Reply)