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By stenis on 26 December 2007

Windows Vista contains a nice utility called Program Compatibility Assistant which tracks the applications which might have problems with running in Vista. When you start an application which is detected to have problems with Vista you will be presented with a box like the one below, and the necessary compatiblity settings are automatically applied...

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Not all in-compatability problem are fixed with this, I have been using Ulead CD & DVD Picture Show 4 in Windows XP this program will not work under Vista Compatibility setting or not

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