How to set a lot of shortcuts to windowsXP compatibility mode at once 2

[Hexes]

Good day,

I have a bit of a problem, a company has upgraded to windows 8.1 but on 12 PC's I have to install and setup old apps.
Not a problem to run them because the work 100% if you edit the shortcut link and set compatibility to run the app as windowsXP SP3.

My pain is that the program is made up of a lot of shortcuts starting different exe files (79 shortcuts in 3 folders).

Does anyone know if there is a way to set all the shortcuts to run as windowsXP SP3 compatibility mode all at once.

Doing them one by one takes forever and it seems there are 3 more sets of these type of apps that bring the total of shortcuts to edit up to 169 per PC !

Please help.

Kind regards.

 

[linney]

Can you select to run the actual Setup.exe at Installation to run in the desired Compatibility Mode and in that way pass down the XP Compatibility Mode?


Set multiple compatibility mode in Windows.

How can I set the compatibility mode for an executable from the command line?

http://superuser.com/questions/3793...-mode-for-an-executable-from-the-command-line

Script to set the compatibility mode of executable files on Windows 7

http://techdiary-viki.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/script-to-set-compatibility-mode-of.html

 

[Nelviticus]

The shortcuts themselves are just files, so once you've done them manually on one PC you can copy them - including the file structure if they're not all in the same directory - and paste them to the other PCs.

You could use XCopy:
[tt]xcopy "[source path]\*.lnk" "[destination path]" /s /y[/tt]
will copy all shortcut files under your source path to a new location, keeping the file structure and overwriting any existing shortcuts.

Nelviticus