Software needs Windows 95 Compatibility Mode to install

[mikep56]

Hi All,

I have a great older game called Tritryst. It is similar to Tetris, but it is different. I want to install this silently, but upon clicking on the setup.exe file, a message box pops up telling me that it will not run in win32s mode. So I needed to right click on the setup.exe file and go to properties, and select Windows 95 Compatibility mode. Then the program installs and runs fine.

How do I go about doing this with WPI? I tried an idea in AutoIt. Creating a target directory and copying all of the setup files to the target directory, but then I couldn't figure out how to automate navigating to a folder and right clicking on a file.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Mike

[zorphnog]

Why can't you just set it to compatibility mode before you burn it to disc? Does it not save the attribute?

[bledd]

probably easier to install it on a system, then store it in a zip file (with reg file if it needs one)

[mikep56]

Hi Zorphnog,

I believe that I tried setting the attribute before copying it into the VM environment that I use for testing, and it didn't work. But now you've given me an idea...what about undoing the read only attribute, selecting W95 comp mode, then resetting the read only attribute? I will try this out and report back, probably not till over the weekend.

Hi Bledd,

The setup.exe file won't run on any w32s system. But once it is installed, it runs with no problem.

Thanks for the quick responses.

Mike