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Old 07-16-2007, 09:40 PM
Andrew McLaren
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Re: Winkey not working properly in Vista

"Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote ...[color=blue]
> Is there any reason why the Compatibility feature would work with one
> utility, but not with another, that might enable some way of getting
> around
> this problem?[/color]


Sure. The number of ways in which a program can be incompatible are as
numerous as the number of programs themselves. The App Compatibility layer
canot hope to fix all, or even a fraction, of the possible compatibility
problems. Instead, it tries to add shims to fix the top 30 or so
compatibility issues. This will fix the largest number of problems - the
"low-hanging fruit", so to speak - but there is a long, thin tail of
problems which stretch from "not very common" to "unique"; which not even
the Compatibility layer can touch.

Winkey works by doing some funky low-level hooking of KeyboardProc(), deep
inside Windows - so it's not surprisng it is easily broken by a version
change.
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Andrew McLaren
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Old 07-16-2007, 09:40 PM