Alex, I know it's been months since you posted this question and it's
unlikely that you'll be back looking for an answer, but my mother had
the same issue and after I found a way to do this for her, she asked me
to come back and explain it just in case.

There are four or five files from XP that you'll need to copy into a
new folder on the Vista computer:

cards.dll
freecell.chm
freecell.hlp
freecell.exe
and possibly freecell.chw

I suggest running a search (including hidden files and folders) for
these files, as I've located them in different places on two different
computers running XP. One had the .chw file and the other did not.

Simply copy those files to a *new folder* on the Vista computer and
create a desktop shortcut. It's important that you create a new folder
as some of these file names are identical to those used in the Vista
version.


--
Tiffany