Windows 10 compatibility with JTCS

[Bruno1991]

I had a perfectly running game on a laptop running Win 10 that unfortunately crashed so I tried a clean install of the game on another laptop also running Win 10 and that's when the fun started.

I first received a message that autorun was not working and sure enough the game selection screen would appear but none of the buttons worked.
Lomg story short I started investigating online and one solution was to download a visual MS patch from 2008 which I selected the 64 bit version since my system is 64 bit but the patch didn't work

I also received the side by side error that many players have experienced and I'm sure my problem can be solved if someone would layout the steps I need to follow. Also do I need to install 1.04 from 20007 first then 2.02 from 2014 in order or does it not matter?