Older versions of FM sometimes seem unhappy running directly in a newer OS.
Try VirtualBox from Oracle. It's free; you can set up a virtual XP environment under Win 7 or Win 10, install FM in that XP world, and away you go, often faster and without those quirks compared to running the older FM natively. (I've found the emulator offering from Microsoft to be lacking and unreliable. What a surprise.)
With a few configuration tweaks, the virtual environment can r/w "real" disk locations outside the environment, you can copy and paste (control-C/V) to and from apps inside and outside the virtual environment, and you can send/receive from your USB devices, such as printers, keyboards, mice.
Two caveats: You'll need original XP disks to do the install; and so far there is no support for firewire devices.
Overall a headache saver and in our case, we have a 25 year-old custom database that's impossible to run in Win7 but works just fine in Virtualbox. A HUGE time saver and business saver, actually -- we were unable to rewrite that db for a newer OS. And oh, btw, FM7.x runs nicely in that environment as well. :)
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