Weird Issue to Solve - Icon loses properties for other users

[GT]

Hi All,

Have a weird issue I hope someone can help with. We are trying to deploy a
new Windows XP Lab in a school, and a few of the older applications will
only run in Windows 95 compatibility Mode. So, we set up the icon on the
machine to image, and set up the properties for the icon (and test - all
works fine), but as soon as the icon is copied to the "All Users" profile,
or if the machine is imaged to another machine, the Compatibility mode
settings in the icon properties all disappear. We have tested this on
numerous machines, and they all have the same problem.

So, we have no way that we can see to distribute this icon around to all
users who use the machine as the icon keeps losing it's properties under the
Compatibility mode tab. Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Following iss the response to basically the same question that I posted...
After I modified the Default User Profile as instructed in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319974
and things are now working...

JeffB

This is a known issue. The application compatibility settings are not
stored in the shortcut. Instead, they are stored in a
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers.
Because this is a user registry key, the settings are specific to the user
that sets them. You could copy the registry entries for the apps you are
interested in to the default profile (so that they are inherited by all new
users) or you could add the keys via a logon script to each user. But the
better alternative would be to use Application Compatibility Toolkit 3.0,
downloadable from Microsoft.com. This would allow you to create a database
of application compatibility settings (an SDB file) which could then be
installed on any machine (using SDBINST.EXE). By doing this, you create
machine settings instead of user settings. This will also give you much
more granularity than the Explorer properites page provides.

-Michael Niehaus
Senior Consultant
MCS US Centers of Excellence - Deployment AOS
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