compatibility mode

Hello Need help on installing an older(2004) application onto Windows 10. I had a Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 which was successfully running the app, and even when I upgraded for free to Windows 10 it was still running fine. I believe it was running in compatibility mode of Windows...

I have a batch file that runs on logon as a task, but it does not work on non-admin desktops because it uses admin level commands. I want it to run as administrator without prompting the user for a password. I tried going into the file properties, clicking compatibility, and checking "Run This...

Well, after running Windows XP for quite some time, I knew it was time to upgrade. The hardware was 64 bit, Windows XP had a hard time keeping up with new technology, then Microsoft and Google dumped support for it, so kicking and screaming, I decided it was time for an upgrade. Although...

Hi, I have been able to play Battlefield 4 just as the majority of other people do(some crashes and such in he start but not much more than that) Though a about a moth ago now I started getting another much worse problem. So what happens is I play the game as usual, when I exit the game it...

G'day, We have an older application that we distribute to clients with the advice they should run it in Windows XP SP3 Compatibility Mode when using Windows 7. As of late, we have had clients say that running the software in this mode means having to enter a Admin password. As a test, we had...

Hi Today I decided to open Windows 7 Forums in Internet Explorer, to see if the problem with cutting and pasting in this forum, was caused by Google Chrome. What I discovered was that Internet Explorer won't open my Comcast Home Page. I get a message that flashes on the screen that says...

I have a Kensington Trackball (the original grey square 4 button model) which works great and which I absolutely love. I have had it about 10 years now and it still works perfectly fine. Kensington got a lot of grief (and rightly so) for not providing driver support when migrating it from...

I've decided to upgrade my Win XP server box to Win7. It's an ancient machine that I use as a glorified NAS, so I don't care if it's slow or doesn't have aero. As long as it serves up my files. It has an ATI Rage Xpert as the graphics card and I understand that this was discontinued. Short of...

Hello, I've made a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate a few days ago, and I started to encounter the following problem after 30-60 minutes: It usually happens when I'm running a computer game (any game), I experience a sudden fps drop, even though before that, on maximum quality the...

Since I'm one of those guys who is obsessed with having all the latest and greatest drivers for my hardware devices, I had to share this recent experience I had while testing the Windows 8 Developers Preview. After getting the Dev Preview up and running in both Virtual Box and VMware Workstation...

Hey guy's, I just got a new game called Hard to be a God and it seemed to install fine "except from AVG's false win32 Heir Virus that I get on EVERY game" So I click on the game and it comes up with Insufficient privileges. You must be an administrator to run this for the first time. I...

I have Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 RC (IE9), I installed the latest Flash player 10.2 and for the lst week everytime I go to watch a YouTube video, during playback every few seconds through out the video my screen goes black, comes back and the Windows Task bar and desktop comes back black...

i have just upgraded to win 7, i am running it with bootcamp on a macbook pro 13". i am trying to install a program called primal pictures, it is a 3d program for anatomy study. i have successfully added this on to my pc laptop running win xp service pack 3. I use a program called daemon...

HI, i purchased this off Microsoft under the Ultimate Steal thing, so it only cost me £40. It directed me to a link to download the 502mb exe file named ' X12-30307.exe ' . However my problem occurs when i click the exe to run the program. The first stage is windows shouts at me for permissions...

So after some days of playing around with Windows 7 I feel that it would be worth while building my new systems on Windows 7 rather than XP pro again. So a little advice on which way to go would be a great help please. Now I am a software developer that uses a lot of 32bit applications...

A little background and info: I support a number of people who for one reason or another need to be able to do things a local admin can do like install programs and start services (or more accurately allow a program they're running to start a service). All users are in the local administrators...

hello Dear Community ;) i've got a problem with running one of the most epic games of all times: SW KotOR here i upload some screens: 1. this is what happens when i use "Scan Hardware" option in SW KotOR config: Link Removed due to 404 Error 2. this window appears when i choose "Details": Link...

[RESOLUTE] Technical issue for one program and one game. Hello all a have a technical issue. i didn't exactly know where i must post my threat cause i have got a game problem (Battlefield bad company 2) and a program problem (Logitech G-serie key profiler). When i push on server browser, or...

Hey all, Sorry I'm new to the forum, hopefully this is the right place to put this. I've just upgraded my Dell XPS 420 to windows 7-32bit Home Premium from vista and now any time I try and install a program from the internet (even things like iTunes or Firefox) I'm running into problems...

Sorry about the misspelled word printer in topic heading but I cannot correct it. As posted on the HP Forum HP will not released drivers or new software for Windows 7 until January 2010 due to problems. They state to use the Windows 7 generic printer driver which will leave you with a lot of...