There is no such thing as a "Windows XP Word file." You open the files in Vista the exact same way you do in Windows XP - with Microsoft Word.
TBN files are a type of a JPG file extension. Therefore, in order to open TBN image files on Windows XP, you can use any standard image editor or viewer.
Winrar can open it. Or you can go to www.7zip.org
Simple. You install whatever program you use to open them.
Download the free software winrar to read ear files and some other compressed files
Volume Shadow Copy
In my experience, .SMD files are Sega Megadrive game files, so you'll need a megadrive emulator. Hope this helps.
you can drag ipa files to winzip to run an ipa file.
I did this once on an old XP machine thinking it was junk files, and Windows barely booted afterward. XP loves hiding system files in random places, so deleting all 1386 blindly is basically roulette. Check what they actually are before nuking them.
the three files in booting files in windows xp boot.ini ntldr and ntdetect.com
No reason why not. Windows XP should be able to read disks created with Windows 98 without any problems. OpenOffice is capable of reading a wide variety of files.
The following booting files are required to start Windows XP: NTLDR, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com. The following files are optional when starting Windows XP: Ntbootdd.sys and Bootsect.dos. The following files are required to start Windows 7/Vista: Bootmgr (Windows Boot Manager) and BCD (Boot Configuration Data).