gaming problem/hardware?

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i bought a hp xe4100 laptop which is 1.2ghz celeron,30gb hdd,256 133 sdram.I thought i would try to put old games on it to try see if they would work.The games i tryed was Fruit Machine Mania,total annihlation and red alert.The games install fine but when i try to run them i click on exe and nothing happens.The egg timer appears then goes away.I know the laptop is pretty low spec but i thought old games would run on it fine.I have windows xp sp2 installed and i have directx 9c.Anyone have any ideas what it could be?

 

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update

I managed to get tiberiun sun working,then i found out red alert one doesnt even work on any xp machine?.Maybe it was just the games i was trying.