Subject: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode"

Hi, my problem is I'm trying to run a program which can only run under two
conditions:
1) Can only run under windows XP.
2) Needs to run in safe mode to work correctly.

I can solve the first problem by simply runing the program under
compatibility mode (so it thinks its running under XP SP2). but the problem
is that in Safe Mode I can't use the compatibility mode because the
option is greyed out.

So my question is; is there any other way to use compatibility mode while in
Safe mode? like from the command line?

Many thanks in advance.

No, your choices are pretty much limited to a dual boot, or Virtual PC.

Virtual PC 2004 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/i...splaylang%3den

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"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C3B0F414-D510-44B4-BD1A-8B933A47842A@microsoft.com...
> Hi, my problem is I'm trying to run a program which can only run under two
> conditions:
> 1) Can only run under windows XP.
> 2) Needs to run in safe mode to work correctly.
>
> I can solve the first problem by simply runing the program under
> compatibility mode (so it thinks its running under XP SP2). but the
> problem
> is that in Safe Mode I can't use the compatibility mode because the
> option is greyed out.
>
> So my question is; is there any other way to use compatibility mode while
> in
> Safe mode? like from the command line?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>