A. A. Windows 2000 provides a utility called APCOMPAT.EXE which can fool a program into thinking it is running on Windows NT (service pack 3,4 or 5), Windows 95 or Windows 98. The syntax of the command is as follows:
apcompat \[-?\] \[-v version name\] \[-x program path\] \[-d\] \[-t\] \[-g\] \[-k\]
Parameters:
| -? | Displays the syntax for the command line parameters. | |
| -v <version name> | Specifies the name of the operating system you want to return to the specified program. | |
| 1 | Returns the version WindowsNT4 SP3 | |
| 2 | Returns the version WindowsNT4 SP4 | |
| 3 | Returns the version WindowsNT4 SP5 | |
| 4 | Returns the version Windows98 | |
| 5 | Returns the version Windows95 | |
| -x <program path> | Specifies the path and name of the executable (.exe) file for the program you want to run. | |
| -d | Disables the Heap Manager for the portion of memory reserved for the specified program | |
| -t | Uses \Temp for the Temp folder when running the specified program | |
| -g | Corrects disk space detection. | |
| -k | Stores the specified Application Compatibility settings | |
The tool is part of the Windows 2000 support tools and is documented in the w2rksupp.chm HTML Help file. You can run APCOMPAT.EXE with no qualifiers which will launch a GUI version allowing you to make choices on screen. It can be found in support.cab in the support\tools folder of your CD.
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