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Community News. Community Members of the Month. Click here to watch on YouTube. Klondike This version is the timeless classic that many people just call “Solitaire. Spider Eight columns of cards await your attempts to clear them with the fewest moves possible. Love it!!! The alternatives are not as good! Thank you so much!!!!! Me and my kids love these games and were so disappointed to see they were gone. Thanks again! Thanks so much for this. Not I have and it was painless!!! Very, very well done…Thanks again.

I have google chrome and plenty of storage. The other link does not work. Can you help? Thanks a milli…. Really grateful that you took the trouble to set this up. What can i do to remove it? It reappears after each refresh. Will an earlier version, say from Windows 98, work, and where can I get it?

What can I do? Unfortunately windows will not let me choose 7-zip to unzip. If I double click on the winaero program, I get the message: the program cannot be found. If I right-click on the program, I can choose to unzip but only with winzip or express-zip. I have tried downloading the 7-zip first as 86, the as 64, but without result did not know which one I should choose. Suddenly it worked.

I have now installed solitaire, spider and hearts. Only hearts is a normal size. The two others are huge — fill the whole page which I do not seem to be able to reduce, but I will keep trying. Thank you for your help. Sooo… this may be a stupid q, but will this work on a 32bit pc as well? Okay, now what? Certainly no Windows 7 games. Have tried twice incl.

The MEGA thing is asking me to upload or drag anything to its cloud service. There has been no exe file to open, or at least no games. What is your antivirus software? What exactly it reported? The file is clean, you can check it with the VirusTotal service for example.

Thank you. I do not see any comments relative to trojans, malware, bloatware, etc. Is this software free of the junk before I download? I was an addict of Freecell and the new version was simply NOT okay with me. I have had the same thing happen to me twice when I upgraded to the newer Builds of Windows 10 Preview. The only thing left on my drive for the games are empty directories except for the games names and a file ending in exe.

I did reinstall the games again and they are working again. Gen2 detecet by Auto-Protect, Blocked. BAK and when i renamed them, removed them.

Viruses have the same behavior, however, they usually inject their body into the file. This patcher just modifies the file header and increases the supported Windows version. It is clean. If you are not happy with such behavior of the patcher, then do not install these games. There is not other way to get it working. Be sure to remove the Trojan before installing.

How do I go to step 2? Unpack and execute? On Windows 7, you waited a while or a few hours and it worked again. No such luck on Windows 10 so far. Thanks soooooooo much!!! This helped me to overcome my bordem while my online games are updating!!!! I can not thank you enough, my level of appreciation is unlimited!!! Thank you sooooo much!!! Neither does right clicking.

Just wanted to let you know that I upgraded to Windows 10 Build , reinstalled program and it says Internet Spades blocked by parental controls. I have NO parental controls installed.

However, I went back to Windows 10 build and games work fine. Curious if you tried on build ? I figured out why when you install a newer build to Win10 why games say blocked by parental control.

My system is Windows Server R2 in Windows 8. I downloaded and installed the game, but nothing works. I downloaded windows 10 to my windows 7 and lost the games like hearts, solitaire, etc and fond out through this website how to install it and it worked great. Thank you so much for your help…. But last night she called asking where to find Solitaire. These games will not run in I wonder what the problem is. I have tried compatibility mode to no avail. Same here. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

What is more, the update to build was kind enough to completely uninstall the games. We were getting the null pointer exception in Solitaire undo. On my old Dell that had the games already install, which was upgraded to win10 RTM, then upgraded to , no issues whatsoever.

Which is the fastest internet brouser in the world. Microsoft should have given away the internet explorer and the Bing bar years ago and done a deal with google chrome.

I play these games after a hectic day of being a care-giver. You are a life saver! A blessing on you. I installed this and it worked fine. Now I can play spider solitaire when the cat uses the keyboard as a bed! However, a little while ago a red ring appeared in the middle of the solitaire screen.

It overlays the background and the cards. It also appears on the other games which I have tried. Any idea what this is? Well, based entirely on the colour of the circle red , I disabled and re-enabled my antivirus Bullguard and now the red ring has gone. Oh thank goodness!!! My enjoyment of solitaire and chess on the new lappy had dropped to nil because of all the web based crapola involved. Now I can just play and relax. Bless you! My son thought it was stupid that I wanted Freecell until I made him play it just one time and he had to admit it was pretty cool.

Microsoft might be striking back. Its latest updates are stopping your version of windows 7 games. I installed and played your zipped games successfully. They are disappearing — not starting when I click on them. The files are intact, they simply will not initiate. I noticed a MS update last night and Minesweeper was not working today. Is it safe to poke the giant? I am running windows 10 pro insider preview evaluation copy I am also running windows 10 pro insider preview evaluation copy — They install but will not open, however the last played data updates.

Very kind of you to allow a download without gouging us to accept more than we wanted! On windows DLL module. IDK what changed but someone with deeper knowledge of it might be able to figure something out.

I would like to play Wall of Words and Solitaire Cruise but cannot i bought them when i had Windows 7 How can i play them on Windows Will this also work on a brand new Dell with Windows 10 installed, I am a novice and really enjoyed the solitaire games which came with my previous Windows 7 and truly hate the collection which is available in the Micro Wave Store. But have to admit I am devious about trying this as it might foul up my new pc.

Is there anywhere I can verify the safety of this program? My husband has complained ever since switching to Windows 10, especially about losing Chess Titans. Thank you for making the transition bearable. Update: this package now works in all Windows 10 version including Windows 10 Anniversary Update recent builds. Thank you very much for fixing this. Can you share what exactly did you have to do? Was it just another patch of the executable?

Still a problem with the NULL error when you undo in spider solitaire. Any clue how to fix this? This works great — thanks! I was hoping and then was surprised that my game stats were still there. Sergey,, Thank you for the help you have given all these people here. I have learned one thing though. OMG What the heck is going on? I got 10 installed on my computer from 7 and it caused so many problems it got frustrated and tried a rollback to 7.

I ended up having to re-install my system from scratch, but I always save all my files to an external 8TB drive from Seagate. I have never lost any files since getting that drive. Keep up the good work Sergey!!!!!

Something so simple and easy but yet Microsoft removes what has been favourites to many people for over 20 years. You have done superb work here. I would expect Windows 10 to lose in popularity after when the free period is over and done with due to the inconsistencies in the OS. How to make them work on Windows 10 Anniversary Update insider preview, i am desperate to play games.

Did you re-download the package after it was updated for Anniversary Update? Maybe MS got vindictive and broke it again on purpose. Just when I was celebrating the positive things about Windows 10 taking my games away more sleep, less wasted time, more work done, more books read, etc. Great download! Thank you so much for giving my Freecell, etc. Shoulda known Microsoft would find a way to mess up a very good program. Many thanks for making it possible to have our favourite games back again.

Well done! Has Microsoft caught up to this install? Great for the games, thanks. But why do a few simple games take MB? What else is coming down with those games? You can always use XP versions of the games. The Windows 10 versions are insanely bloated as hell. And slow as hell and infested with ads too besides the dumbed down gameplay and removed options. Hi Sergey Having bought a Win 8. Thank you so much for supplying this work around to give us our favourite games back. I uninstalled W8 and reinstalled the latest W10 version and all seemed fine for a few games — then the NP issue struck again.

This really messes up our stats when the program aborts unexpectedly. Thank you Sergey, the update with the new dll file worked on the latest Insider Preview just released to the slow ring. Hey man, I installed this game package on my W10pro machine 64 bits and it was working perfectly until this week that I upgraded to the Anniversary Edition released last week.

The games will simply not launch. After reinstalling, same issue, no execution whatsoever of the binaries. Are you aware of this issue? Hello everybody. This version runs on windows 10 ver x Idinstvenno previously stored statistics — cleared when you start the game. Please re-download the updated package which has support for Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

The package you had downloaded early will not work. The updated one will do the trick. Remembered this was the place I got previous version of these games and gratefully found an updated download.

Major thanks to all of you who wrote the new software!!! The anniversary update [censored]ed my previous Chess Titans install, so god bless to all the guys that made this fix. I unpacked them. The unpacked file never appeared, but nevertheless, installation began and the screens looked just as shown in paragraph 1. The problem is that none of the actual games are anywhere where I can find them. I see none of the games I expected to be installed anywhere in the list.

I have been playing this in Windows 10 v but after updating to Windows 10 v Aug. Miss playing Chess Titan. All you need to do is: — re-download the games package — re-install them. Thanks for this, only one suggestion in locales like es-XX the installer install en-US as language, the installer must install es-ES as language in all es-XX locale i.

Any suggestions? Re-download the provided package. It was updated some time ago to support Anniversary Update.

Might want to find a cleaner way to get it working instead. The most recent Win10 upgrade killed my Win 7 Games.

What can I do to get it working again? Hi, the games have stopped working after a recent update. I have re-installed, restarted the game couple of times but it does not work. On clicking the shortcut to the game spider solitaire , nothing happens.

No application launches. Tried running the main exe and not the shortcut, same result, nothing happens. Please advice. You need to re-download the updated package and re-install it, not re-install the outdated package. Re-download it, install and you are done.

Regarding the windows 7 games on win 10 After upgrading to win 10 ver , the games has stopped working. I have tried to make it run as win 7 , as making win 10 use the 7 adjustments.

Thanks so much for keeping this current. It had vanished after the last automatic Windows update. Reinstalled it and my statistics were still there. Just had to add one more voice of thanks. Really appreciate what you do.

Hi, thank you for your work. I downloaded this but, after I extract the zip file, and try to run the exe file, Norton flags it and deletes it. Tried reinstalling with no success. It works here without issues. These games have stopped working on win10 Oct Can anything be done to bring them back? Is there anything I can do? Have you got a recently patched version in the works? A big thank-you! Get rid of the aggressive Win10 sound and visual effects that are imposed! It is good to regain calm and sobriety!

Especially that the Win10 Updates uninstall these games! Once again thank you! I wonder if Apple make their customers suffer with every new release. Thanks for these games. In some cases, the information overlaps.

Same results. Any idea how I can fix this? Melinda was very pleased, so many thanks for helping me maintain my status as the household computer-genius slight exaggeration. Your awesome, thank you so much. Just one question, this version of spider has different rules than my old spider solitaire. Anyone else find this, or is it just me? I used the d3d9. Is there anyway to install this silently? With each new W10 version it appears that this needs to be reinstalled and I would love to automate this.

Excellent — but every update to Windows 10 uninstalls the pack. I re-install and all saved games are remembered. Now will not work after latest download, Tried uninstall and hard remove all previous versions in all folders and re downloaded and reinstalled with no luck. When i run the installer, select the games i want and start the instalation, an error message appears. I tried the compatibility mode and runing it as administrator, and the error still appears.

Any solutions? I installed the pack but keep getting the error when undoing. I have tested this on Windows 10 Creators Update and it also works on that update.

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