Where is the Vista Program Compatibility Wizard?

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Stan Kay

I know how to run the Vista Compatibility Wizard but have no idea about the
name of its .exe file or where it is located. Can anyone please enlighten
me?
 
If you go to Control Panel (not Classic View), and click on Programs, under
Programs and Features, there's a link called "Use an older program with this
version of Windows". Click on that. Or type Program Compatibility Wizard
in Help and Support's search box.
 
Stan Kay said:
I know how to run the Vista Compatibility Wizard but have no idea about the
name of its .exe file or where it is located. Can anyone please enlighten
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Hi Stan,

Like many system features, the Compatibility Wizard does not run from an EXE
file. It lives in acprgwiz.dll, in the System32 subdirectory.

So you cannot lauch it interactively, like you would for say, Notepad.exe or
Winword.exe. To run the Program Compatibility Wizard, go to Control Panel,
Programs and click on "Use an older program with this version of Windows".
That will launch the wizard.

If you really, really *must* laucnch the wizard from a command line, you
could try this command:

"C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe"
res://C:\Windows\system32\acprgwiz.dll/compatmode.hta

However starting the Wizard manually like this is untested, unsupported, and
may cause baldness, crop failures, sterility and death.

Hope it helps,
 
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