This GUI tool provides an interface for browsing and editing the Windows XP Professional compatibility fix database as well as creating custom .sdb fixes that can be deployed to other users. CompatAdmin also provides a search capability that will locate fixed applications on a system or networked drives.
Each phase of changing access control can take a day or longer to complete and verify, and requires significant amounts of system resources and administrator time.
You can use CompatAdmin to test and apply one or more of the 139 fixes available in the operating system, although QFixApp offers a superior interface for testing and applying fixes.
CompatAdmin provides its own user interface. For more information, see CompatAdmin UI.
Applications that worked on earlier versions of Windows may fail to function properly on Windows XP Professional. There are several reasons that this may happen:
- The application refuses to run when Windows reports new, higher operating system version numbers. Often the application will work well on the new version of Windows if the user can get past this block in the application.
- The application calls older versions of Win32 API functions that return unexpected values on computers with large amounts of resources, such as disk free space.
- The application expects older formats of Windows data.
- The application expects user information, such as personal and temporary folders, to be in specific locations or specific formats.
The following are the system requirements for CompatAdmin:
Files Required
- Compatadmin.exe
- Shimdbc.exe
