

I suggest using Google when researching your This is more or less detective work and may require you to refine your searches If adjusting the compatibility mode settings doesn't work for you, then you will need to search online for a potential workaround. Option #2: Go Online and Look for a Possible Workaround If it still doesn't work, proceed to Option #2. If it does not, then go back to the Compatibility tab and change the compatibility mode setting for another operating system, such as Windows Vista or Windows 8 and try again. If it does, then there is nothing else to do. Next, go to the Start Menu and launch the program and see if it functions as it did in your previous operating system before you upgraded to Windows 10. After the two items are check marked, click Apply to apply the changes, then click OK to close the Window.(because of the way that Windows XP was designed, for example), and therefore will not run properly unless

Technically speaking, it isĪdvisable not to run programs as administrator because this is a security risk however, most older programs assume you are running as administrator

For example, VMWare Workstation 10, OpenVPN, Kodi,Īnd xpadder all had problems - and on top of that, I had video card issues with When I first upgraded to Windows 10, many of my favorite programs wouldn't work properly,Įither - similar to what you describe. Is there anything I can do to make my programs compatible with Windows 10? " If I would have known that my programs won't work with Windows 10, I don't think I would have upgraded. I upgraded to Windows 10 over the weekend, but unfortunately many of my programs appear to be incompatible.įor example, a program either gives me an error and immediately exits, or it runs but doesn't work properly.
