Age of Mythology - Windows 10

My problem now is that I have a program that "I PAID FOR" but cant use. I cannot return it for several reasons:

1. I no longer can find the receipt
2. I bought it from Office Max over 30 days ago

I probably would have been able to return it but my partner inconveniently needed brain surgery and, silly me, I felt that deserved my attention more than getting a game to work on my computer. Now Microsoft is refusing to compensate me for my loss. Granted it is only $20 but still, they failed to make Windows 10 compatible with THEIR OWN PRODUCT.  Seems like a lot of bull to me and bad customer support in my book.

I also rolled back to 7, which worked until security update kb3086255 on 9/9/15.  Microsoft provided a solution to that, however, in article MS15-097.  yaay!

I was able to play AoM on my Windows 7 until a security fix was installed by Microsoft, KB3086255.  They provided a solution on article MS15-097, which was to use the DOS command prompt at elevated level, with text they provided, to turn on or off the service to the third party driver secdrv.sys

Perhaps that would work for you.

And there is another issue that I can't see in this topic: Age of Mithology's setup doesn't work in Windows 10, so I can't install, repair or uninstall it!!! (In Win 8.1 x64 Works fine).

Hi wmcole,

As a french, I didn't know the "F U" expression and it did me laugh.

But thinking of me as a Windows 10 user, I don't laugh anymore. I totally agree with you. Inappropriate "canned answers" (another expression I learned here) are intolerable. We are not totally stupid !

We should have been warned. I'll go further : we should have been offered a technical solution. Mini virtual play machine, mock secdrv.sys drivers... Something.

It is very far-fetched that Age Of Empire 2 (from Microsoft !) cannot be used anymore !