The App Compat Guy

Today, Mark and Jon finally shipped ShellRunAs, a Sysinternals free tool that adds a "Run as Different User" option to the right-click context menu. Introduction The command-line Runas utility is handy for launching programs under different accounts...

John Robbins asks, "What's your worst travel day?" Wow, he sure has me beat. I can't top that. My worst travel day so far was returning home from Taipei last year. We had been watching for days as they were reporting a typhoon might be heading towards...

I've been talking at a bit of a higher level lately, and today I'm just in the mood to go into some of the deeper debugging aspect that you may run across when looking at Windows Vista application compatibility. (Well, perhaps not deep to some, but for...

From the "doesn't just saying it make it true?" department: I was reading the March 2008 issue of Maximum PC (I love my Maximum PC), and while I like the real dirt and the attitude, I just don't understand the extent of their hatred of UAC. Their Editor...

When I'm working to resolve compatibility issues, there are always multiple options to mitigate. The solution we prefer to use is to update the code. A common application code update is this: "my application used to write files to program files. It felt...