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Ever wondered how you can set Compatibility Mode on executables under Vista / Windows 2008 server when the settings (or even the entire tab) has been disabled ?

Or make the application “run as administrator” permanently, and you’ve found that this setting is disabled ?

All of the settings in the Compatibility tab can be set via the registry

Launch regedit and navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionAppCompatFlagsLayers

Create a new string (REG_SZ) value. Rename the value (not the data) to the full path/filename of the application that needs to be modified.

Suppose you want to modify settings for notepad, then rename the string to “C:Windowsnotepad.exe”

There are multiple settings that …