A fix for Broderbund's Kid Pix 4
Broderbund's Kid Pix 4, the fun and versatile illustrating software, has been a mainstay of many Sunday School computer labs. At one point in its development, it stopped fully working on newer versions of Windows and Broderbund went out of business without fixing it --leaving the animated stickers in Kid Pix no longer functioning.
During my sundaysoftware.com days, I developed my own "patch" to make Kid Pix 4 work on Windows 7, 8 and 10. I've attached my patch to this post for those who might be looking for it. It substitutes a working exe file for the one that came with the program on the CD and no longer fully works on W7,8,10. Install it only if your animated stickers aren't working.
HOW TO INSTALL THE KID PIX PATCH
After downloading and unzipping my KP-sunday.zip file, you need to copy the KP-Sunday.exe file into your installed KP program folder (which is Programs(86x)/TheLearningCompany/KidPixDeluxe4). Then, simply delete the existing kp.exe file in the KP4 folder, andrename KP-Sunday to kp.exe to make it Kid Pix's new and fixed executable application file. This will fix the animated stickers problems and keep your KP desktop shortcuts functional.
Please note: Kid Pix also requires the latest and last version of Quicktime for Windows 7.7.9 to be installed if you're going to run KP on Windows 10. See my Quicktime notes in the post above here.