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First post, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Whenever I set and Compatibility setting it gets stored in HKCU or HKLM/SOFTWARE/.../Compatibility Assistant/Layers

For example, if I enable Windows XP SP2 and 640x480 compatibility modes, the key inside Layers saves it as:
"WINXPSP2 640X480"

However I have seen cases where it says:

"~ WINXPSP2 640X480"
or
"$ WINXPSP2 640X480"
or
"~$ WINXPSP2 640X480"

How do these ~ and $ affect programs?

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Reply 1 of 2, by Jo22

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These are jokers/wildcards, I think - not sure why they are there, though. 🤷‍♂️

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Reply 2 of 2, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Jo22 wrote on 2023-01-11, 19:38:

These are jokers/wildcards, I think - not sure why they are there, though. 🤷‍♂️

I thought they disable/enable things, but instead the key gets removed. I can't seem to find a documentation either.

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