Age of empires II won't work via windows 10

Age of Empires II is available on Steam, this version works fine

the old disk versions are deprecated

I played AOE on Steam until I purchased a new laptop and could no longer get on Steam.  I tried multiple way of accomplishing that and only managed to get more frustrated!  So going to my local computer repair shop and buying a used laptop seemed the best choice, and I love it.  No more hassles.

Thanks dogerme, I will let you know if I find a work around

Loads and loads of time spent to search an answer for this tedious problem.

Waste of time.

Every little bit of "Official Microsoft Support" answers and suggestions on this topic is a time waster. I'm sorry to say this, but it is unfortunately true. NONE OF IT WORKS!

The original CD version of AOE II gold edition (Microdoft game studios / Ensemble Studios) can not run under Wintendo10.

Somewhere in this tread a knowledgeable forum member tells us to download a patchfile from this website :

http://userpatch.aiscripters.net/

It is the filename "UserPatch.v1.4.20150723-000000.zip" which contains an executable "SetupAoC.exe"

This file will patch the "EMPIRES".EXE" to run correctly under Wintendo10.

(Be sure to read the guide on the website)

Also you are given a choise select of some nice extra game features, before the patch is run.

And then ! The game suddenly springs into life on the Wintendo10 desktop !

Only thing you need is to select the correct display size in the game options menu.

I am really disappointed, that Microsoft could not by themselves find such a solution.

For the crash dummies : Wintendo10 = Windows 10

I'm glad this worked for someone. It just didn't work for me.