I'm pulling my hair out now

I've tried to run the programme as Administrator and changed the compatability settings but it still does the same..

Then I tried XP and for some reason Redsnow (Downloaded from Iclarified) doesn't seem the same? It goes through select .ispw extracts a few things but then comes up asking me to put the phone in recovery mode by holding in home while inserting the USB but then nothing else happens.. why does it appear different?