It is not "officially" documented but looks like pcalua.exe is the command line interface for the program compatibility assistant on Windows. Also not officially documented but you can start a program using the following switches -a for the application to be ran (you can use also the full path to it), -c for the arguments passed to the application (better to be the last one in order to not attach arguments passed to pcalua to the called program), -d for the directory where the application will be started. I'm not aware of any other switches. Example command:
pcalua -a msg.exe -d "%windir%" -c * /w test-message Interestingly an application can be started even with program compatibility service shut down. My assumption was that the __COMPAT_LAYER settings will be taken into account but seems they are ignored.
So how can I start a program/application/script/.. using pcalua in a compatibility mode (e.g. 640x480 because it will be easy for verification)? Is it possible?
