With the arrival of Windows Vista, many programs that were built for predecessor Windows have failed to work on Microsoft’s latest Operating System. The following describes the ways to make revive these programs on the shiny Windows.
- Navigate to the folder where the program is installed
- Right-click on the program, click “Properties” ?
- Click the “Compatibility” tab
- Under “Compatibility mode”, place a tick in the box “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” ?
- Click to select one of the older Windows in which your desired program had previously worked (select Windows XP SP2 if you are not sure)
- Click “Ok” to save
On top of this, it is advisable to run the program under an administrator account. In order to do so, right-click the program, point to “Run As…” and select “Administrator” to proceed.
Citing an example, these two tricks can be deployed to overcome an error message encountered while participating in Warcraft III LAN session. The symptoms are that a Windows Vista Warcraft III player, as he or she attempts to join a game, is stopped by the message “Map Not Found”. In order to get around this problem, the player has to specify to run the game in XP SP2 environment first (and run the game under Administrator account as a supplement) in order to join a Warcraft III LAN game session.
The game need not be installed under XP SP2 environment.
Keywords: Compatibility program, Warcraft III, Warcraft 3, LAN error message, Map Not Found, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Reign of Chaos, Frozen Throne, Ethernet, Gigabit, Join Game, Create Game, Run as Administrator
