{"id":10838,"date":"2010-09-02T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2010-09-02T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:04:00","slug":"microsoft-application-compatibility-toolkit-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10838","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft released<\/a> a new version of ACT, 5.6, last week.  ACT will provide you with the tools to help \u201cfool\u201d incompatible applications into working on Windows Vista or Windows 7.<\/p>\n

When doing an upgrade, you\u2019ll identify those applications that won\u2019t work on your new OS.  You would try to either fix the application or get a new version that won\u2019t work. Maybe you\u2019ll try to find an alternative application.  If that\u2019s not possible (no budget, vendor is gone, developer is gone, etc) then you would try to get the application working.  ACT works by providing shims that sit between the OS and the application.  For example, an application may not be UAC aware and you make it aware via a shim.  It might explicitly check for Windows XP so you use a shim to lie to the application about the version of the OS.  It is pretty cool stuff.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: ACT<\/a>,Deployment<\/a>,Windows 7<\/a>,Windows Vista<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft released a new version of ACT, 5.6, last week.  ACT will provide you with the tools to help \u201cfool\u201d incompatible applications into working on Windows Vista or Windows 7. When doing an upgrade, you\u2019ll identify those applications that won\u2019t work on your new OS.  You would try to either fix the application or get … Continue reading “Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[53,174,108,123],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-act","tag-deployment","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-vista"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t