That is true. Some applications are so poorly written they turn off a lot of stuff in the Windows operating system while you are running them. Some of them are so bad that you have to reboot the computer to get out of them. In fact, in the early days of computing, Microsoft produced such programs. In order to get Microsoft programs to work on our computers we had to disassemble them and fix the bugs. Microsoft started by having a number of people doing free research and development for them and Microsoft made the money. Do not buy any more programs from the company that writes such applications. You do not want to do free R&D for them.
In general XP is a good operating system. Some programs will make it crash. Other programs will make the help function unavailable.
If you opened a spreadsheet, you will be running a software program. If you use Microsoft Windows, it will probably be Excel.
The application window is the one that is running your program, such as "WINWORD.EXE" and the document window is the one inside of "WINWORD.EXE" with the currently open document you are editing, such as "termpaper.docx".
compatibility mode
a service
If you opened a spreadsheet, you will be running a software program. If you use MicroSoft Windows, it will probably be Excel.
an application that can run from Windows' command prompt ($ theApp or $ run theApp). 32-bit Windows system (Windows XP for an instance), or running as 32-bit application only in Windows 7.
Linux is more powerful then windows
Program Manager
Apple's Mail application is only available with Mac OS X and will not work with a PC running the Windows operating system.
Software is running program in windows or Mac.
According to the internet, a wafe is a computer application in two parts: a front-end (Wafe) and an application program running as a separate process.
The easiest method is to verify with the vendor that the application downloaded will work on Vista. You are running Vista on a 32bit computer the application might have a chance to work, you can make software applications run on Vista by setting the compatibility mode to an older version of Windows. If you are running Vista on a 64bit computer the application will not work at all. The application will need to be a 64bit application and vista compatible.