How to quickly start the Program Compatibility Wizard in Vista

Since Vista was released, some of the apps that preceded Vista may not work very smoothly on Vista, although Vista has been designed to the greatest extent possible, but the security improvements of the new era, such as the virtual redirection technology of UAC and the least privilege design, It may often cause the corresponding software user configuration information to not be saved normally.

1.1 The importance of the Program Compatibility Wizard

Since Vista RTM was released, some of the apps that preceded Vista may not work very smoothly on Vista, although Vista has been designed to the greatest extent possible, but, for example, the virtual redirection technology of UAC and the security improvements in the new era of minimal privilege design, It may often cause the corresponding software user configuration information to not be saved normally.

For example: 7-zip 4.42 version of the Extension association settings:

And let me depressed for a long time "Need for Speed Most wanted" can not save the game progress problem.

These issues can be addressed through the Program Compatibility Wizard [Programs Compatibility Wizard] in Windows Vista. The features and styles are very similar to those in the Windows XP version, so I'm not going to use the Introduction wizard.

However, there is a more depressing problem with Windows Vista RTM, as if I couldn't find the wizard through all the programs in the Start menu.

Now, one of the processes I've found for this wizard is:

Click Start, select Help and Support, enter the word compatibility in the search field, note: I am using Vista in English.

Then this connection will appear:

So it leads to the next topic.

1.2 How to quickly start the Program Compatibility Wizard

The following will lead you to create a shortcut to the Program Compatibility Wizard.

Steps:

1. Create a shortcut, you can right-click on the desktop, select New, select a shortcut.

2. In the Create Wizard, enter the location of the project, enter the following characters:%systemroot%system32mshta.exe Res://acprgwiz.dll/compatmode.hta

3. Click Next to continue and enter the name of the shortcut, such as the Program Compatibility Wizard.

4. [OPTIONAL] If you want this shortcut to be more beautiful, follow these steps to set: