Vista and FiSHMan

[nerdly_dood]

Recently my laptop became unusable but not entirely dead - my projects are salvageable but I can't salgave them yet, and I can't work on them with the laptop.  The laptop runs Windows 2000 (if it boots at all) and it is my machine that I use to make my police car skins.  My other computer runs a 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate, and I use it to test my mods and play SC4.  Due to my sudden inability to create new police car skins on my laptop, I must use my desktop to do my modding.  Many knowledgeable modders know that FiSHMan is a necessary program to do any texture work that does not include just creating Lot Editor textures or making transit texture mods. So I try to run the program on Vista, and it just gives me a bunch of jargon that means that it won't work... so I'm left to work on my existing mods turning them into props and additionals.

Possible solutions that I know of include getting the laptop to work (requiring a little bit too much effort that I'm willing to use) or I could install some virtual machine software (I already have such a program) and install Windows 2000 on it...or does anyone else have any advice? I've tried it with Aero, Vista Basic and Windows Classic themes - none affect the FiSHMan problem.

[pilotdaryl]

Go to the main .EXE file that opens FiSHman, right click on properties, go to the compatibility tab and check "run this program in compatiblity mode for (then choose an OS - it should work on 'Windows XP service pack 2')"
I had to do it to install SimCity 4!