How to stop running compatibility mode in Windows 7?

Question

I guess I accidentally turned on "compatibility mode" while playing around with control panel functions. How do I turn this of? I can't run Steam in compatibility mode.

Answer 1

As far as I know there isn't a universal compatibility mode. I think you turned compatibility mode on for steam itself. In order to change this go to your steam shortcut or steam.exe and right click it. After that click on the compatibility tab and uncheck the box that says "Run this program in compatibility mode for".

Answer 2

Hi

Just thought I would post a solution to a problem I had with Steam on Windows 7 RC x64 (but I believe it can happen in vista as well)

Everything was working in steam for weeks until I went to close it down last night, when I exited steam windows poped up with a message stating it was going to apply compatility settings to steam as it detected a problem (no cancel or way to stop it doing this)

When I relaunched steam it poped up with a message telling me:

Running Steam in Windows compatibility mode is not recommended. Please remove any Windows compatibility settings for all users under file properties for Steam.exe and restart Steam. Press 'Cancel' to premanently ignore this warning and continue.



Reinstalling steam made no difference as well as trying to set compatibility settings under the shortcut. I eventually had a go of the application compatibility tool microsoft gives out to see that the settings saved on the machines local database and that triggering when I ran steam. I had a hunt through the registry and found the area where the keys are kept and deleted the key and my problems were gone.



To fix the issue:

Hit start->run->regedit

Go to key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers

Look for a entry with your path to steam.exe

Delete that entry

If you dont find it there try HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers



Hope this helps if you get the issue.

Answer 3

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