Hi OShah,
This is a great idea for a future product enhancement. I will forward your
suggestion and feedback to our development and management team. However,
personally, I cannot guarantee if this will be considered in the next
release.
Here, I'd recommend that you forward the recommendation to the Microsoft
Wish Program:
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| Subject: RE: Compatibility Mode XP SP2
| From: OShah <
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| Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 06:58:07 -0700
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| (e-mail address removed) (Feng Mao) wrote in
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| > Hi,
| >
| > Thank you for posting!
| <snip>
| >
| > Because Windows XP with Service Pack2 is not a new version of
| > Windows, it will not consider Windows XP as a compatibility mode.
| >
|
| Hello Microsoft!
|
| It was your last sentence in the big paragraph that dealt with my
| question. However, I do not fullly agree with that statement. From what
| I have read, there are enough new features in the OS to add one or two
| specific compatibility fixes, if not in the compatibility mode part,
| something like a check box.
|
| Let me explain. Do you remember in Service pack 1, XP added a new
| compatibility fix called "Turn Off Advanced Text Services For This
| Program"?
|
| <sour grapes>
| Oh, so Service Pack 1 was different enough to add a compatibility fix
| but Service Pack 2 isn't!?
| </sour grapes>
|
| My suggestion is, in SP2, add a couple more check boxes to disable the
| new OS features for just a single application.
|
| One of the features I am going to focus on is DEP, though other stuff
| could apply, like use legacy RPC permissions. Right now, to add
| exclusions to DEP, the user must specify their excluded programs next to
| the System setting in DEP. IMO, the user should disable DEP via the
| Compatibility Mode Tab (ie. below the option "run in 640x480", add
| something like "disable memory protection for this program"), instead of
| System properties.
|
| The Service Pack 2 documents have big headings that say "Application
| Compatibility Issues with DEP". Placing DEP exclusions in the
| compatibility mode tab makes it clear to the user that disabling memory
| protection is a Compatibility Fix only, and their program is not
| compatible with XP Service Pack 2. Also, it's quite humiliating to the
| developer when their program has to be run in compatibility mode to run
| in XP. It kind of shames them into making a fix, and that is usually the
| only way to make developers fix bugs.
|
| Of course, I don't have access to field testing statistics, and have no
| idea how adminstrators deploy compatibility modes for each application
| (a nightmare? Mostly because compatibility modes are per user). Perhaps
| it's because admins would find it confusing.
|
| I do know that it's easy for developers to make their software run in
| compatibility mode (just add a few reg keys at setup). You may argue
| this ease may create an attack vector, where a virus can disable
| DEP/RPC, and corrupt away the system as it likes. However, this attack
| vector applies anyway; the virus can just alter the registry itself (as
| detailed in the service pack 2 docs), and corrupt away!
|
| Okay, it's too late to move DEP stuff into the compatibility tab,
| because Sp2 is now out, and all features are locked into place, never to
| be touched again.
|
| However, I understand it is NOT too late to add this feature to
| Application Compatibility Toolkit v4 (currently beta). In ACT, you could
| add all sorts of tiny specific compatibility fixes to your application
| (like redirect ini files to registry, vice versa, redirect "program
| files" to "appdata").
|
| My suggestion is to add a "Disable Memory Protection" compatibility fix
| to Application Compatibility Toolkit v4. This Compatibility fix will
| write to the appropriate registry locations before the application
| starts (so DEP is disabled), then run the app without memory protection.
| It shouldn't be that difficult to apply. And it produces no attack
| vector because nobody has ACTv4 installed! (by default)
|
| Thanks.
|
| --
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| oshah
| Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose
| Programs
| -> Do not report errors for these programs:
|
| Acrobat.exe
| waol.exe
|
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|
