I installed XAMPP on Win2k and sites using ( for example ) <? include 'file'; ?> will not function however if the code is altered to <?php include 'file'; ?> they do work.
Here is the problem. I have a lot of existing sites that use the former and none will function in my xampp server. It is really not practical for me to manually change thousands of files.
Is there some way I can alter a config file somewhere to make the <? --- ?> function as it does on my production web server? ( without the php )