Guest Ham Pastrami Posted November 9, 2007 Posted November 9, 2007 Sometimes when installing old software I need to make a shortcut to the installer on the CD -- for example I:\setup.exe. After installing, I delete the shortcut. The strange thing is, Windows seems to remember the compatibility setting even when the shortcut is not being used. Furthermore it will remember the setting even for a different CD, so if I then try to install a newer program, which is incidentally also I:\setup.exe, the installer will say something like "Windows 95 is not supported". I then have to make the shortcut again and turn off compatibility mode. Since it appears that Windows actually stores the compability data somewhere other than the shortcut file itself, how might I be able to access these settings and modify them manually?
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