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I have a program on my Win10 machine that I run in WINXPSP3 compatibility mode. I set this up while logged in as admin using the "Change Settings for all users" dialog.
So when I run the program while still logged in as admin it pops up a UAC prompt (but doesn't ask for creds), so I click past and the program runs fine. I did not set "Run as Administrator"
Then I log off and I log back in under my normal-rights user, I run the program and it crashes on launch--no UAC prompt--the same error that made me go to compat-mode in the first place. So it clearly isn't even using compat mode, though I can look at the properties and see the greyed-out-checked box (because it's set for all users).
So, two key questions:
Why would compat-mode require elevated rights in the first place?
Why isn't the "...all users" setting working at all?
@Ramhound I agree with the edit. OSses look worse than Operating Systems. :) Thanks for the edit. – LPChip – 2018-02-24T14:59:21.270
operating systems doesn't have to be capitalized (determined by Wikipedia article), but OS is capitalized I assume because it's an abbreviation, I don't even know what the proper plural form of OS would be to be honest. – Ramhound – 2018-02-24T15:01:52.903
I always use OSes for the plural form just like that when I don't type in out fully and it make sense to me when I read it that way too https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/OSes#English. This is probably a personal preference scenario of which you use but perhaps a question for English SE... LOL
– Pimp Juice IT – 2018-02-24T20:24:51.123