Enable the “Run this program in compatibility mode for’ option.Right-click it, and select Properties from the context menu.Locate either a shortcut to the app or the EXE file for the app.
Enable compatibility mode for appsįollow these steps to enable compatibility mode for apps. Not all desktop apps support compatibility mode. More apps today are compatible with Windows 10 than they were five years ago so this option isn’t used much but it is still there.Ĭompatibility mode can be enabled for desktop apps. To help the apps run more smoothly, Windows 10 has a compatibility mode where apps see the OS as an older version. Desktop apps that ran perfectly on Windows 7 and even on Windows 8/8.1 often had trouble running on a Windows 10 system. The OS was better than Windows 8/8.1 but to call it stable would have been a stretch. When Windows 10 was first released, it was a hive of bugs.
