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by fisheye121

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Hello,
I've recently upgraded all of our PC's from win98 to win2000professional. The upgrade went smoothly but some of our software that was made before win2000 is not compatable. I know in XP there are compatability options that will allow me to convince the .exe file that it is running on a compatable version of windows, but that doesn't seem to be an option in win2000. Does anyone know of a way to do this in win2000? Thanks

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by quintar51

From my experience, I found that you have to reinstall the incompatible programs with a 2k compatible version. ie norton antivirus, nero, etc.

I would try that

by rdunn

Right-click on the shortcut for the application in question, click on the compatibility tab, then select if you want to make it compatible for Windows 95 or Windows NT. This has to be a -shortcut- not the actual .exe.

Note that you will have to have SP2 loaded.

If you don't see the compatibility tab, do this:

Do a file find on these files (using this string exactly) "regsvr.exe; slayerui.dll" in your C:\ drive.
When you the find files program locates the two files, drag and drop 'slayerui.dll' on top of 'regsvr.exe.'

This will register the DLL file.

Then do a right-click> properties on the shortcut in question.

This should do the trick (it did for me, anyway!)

Rob

by rdunn

When you register the slayerdui.dll per my steps, it is doing just as the next poster below states...only not in so many words - and this is the way MS recommends how you register DLLs. Perform the manual method if you can't get it to register thisway.

Just a helpful tip.

by r. a. caluste

Compatibility mode is built into xp and in windows 2000, it was added in sp2 and you have to enable it. to enable it run the command 'regsvr32 %systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll' from Run or the command prompt. you need to have admin priveledges to enable this. this will add a tab to execution shortcuts called 'Compatibility'.

for complete instructions, go to

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q279792
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?ID=KB;EN-US;Q279792 (no space in url)
HOW TO: Enable Application Compatibility-Mode Technology in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

hope this helps.

by fisheye121

I've tried the suggestions in answer 2 and answer 3. Doing this did enable compatibility mode, but doesn't seem to make the programs run. All the programs that I've tested this on list compatibility with 95 and 98, but fail to work in either 95 mode or NT mode. They do the same thing they did before...nothing. Any other tricks or ways around this? Thanks for all the suggestions!

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