Older applications stood a rather better chance of running under Windows XP than hardware, but it was still a bit of a lottery - some were found to work perfectly well, while others crashed, or even refused to run at all. Many people upgraded their PCs to Windows XP immediately it was released and discovered the hard way that some peripherals (particularly soundcards, scanners, and printers) simply didn't work at all, and either returned to their previous version of Windows, or rushed out to buy replacement hardware that did work. To be supported under any new operating system, hardware nearly always needs new drivers, so it's extremely important to wait until these have been written before installing Windows XP. However, this compatibility mainly applied to the most popular third-party products, including (naturally) Microsoft's own range, leaving a huge number of other software applications and hardware peripherals in limbo. When Windows XP was first released, it was already compatible with a wide range of hardware and software applications, largely because Microsoft and various third-party developers had been working together to ensure the widest possible customer uptake of the OS. The only hope from here would be to look online for a version that has been re-configured to run on Windows 7.Do you have elderly Windows or MS-DOS software that refuses to run under Windows XP? If so, there may still be a way to get it working. I have a disk of Afterdark Screensavers, and those won't install off the disk for me, they didn't install off the disk when I was still using an XP laptop, it always comes up with some instillation error, supposedly a missing program. To be honest though, I don't know if it will work. In that case, you would probably need to have a virtual operating system, which is rather redundant for the purpose of a screensaver.
The issue with this method though is that if you're referring to the original pre-installed software, it's not trying to save as a separate activatible program, it'll try to save where the other screensavers are. Your best bet, if you're even able to install it, is to run it in compatibility mode so that it's comparing to an older operating system. Most programs that old are difficult to run compatible with modern software without using emulation or virtual software.
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