Compatibility

Webinar: Get Installations Ready for Windows 7

Join the Windows 7 experts to learn more about preparing installations for Windows 7. The Acresso team is presenting a webinar which will highlight the new features of Windows 7 and Installer 5.0 which will impact the existing software installations.  This webinar will present solutions on how to overcome the potential pitfalls such as compatiblity issues. Further,

Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable – Windows 7 Application Compatibility Part 2: Virtualization

On Thursday, September 24, Mark Russinovich will host a virtual roundtable for IT pros worldwide to discuss Windows 7 Application Compatibility Part 2: Virtualization. This is a chance for IT pros to learn all about Windows 7 Application Compatibility, Virtualization and answer any deployment and management questions that they may have. As part of the “virtual”

List of all Windows OS Version Numbers

Version Check is a basic operation which every developer does while building applications. Wrong Conditions may cause Application Compatibility issues to both developers and users, when they look at migrating the existing applications to a newer OS. The Windows version is actually composed of a bunch of different fields, all packed into an OSVERSIONINFO structure. The

Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 and Data for Windows 7

A typical organization has lots of applications installed on all the computers in the network environment. This includes multiple versions of the same application, and even different updates applied to a single application version. Many of the applications and versions will be compatible with Windows 7, but some may not.  The problems resulting from these incompatibilities

Changebase AOK: Overcoming Compatibility Issues

The uptake of Vista in the corporate space has been comparatively low, when compared to other versions of Windows. This can be attributed to a number of issues: people being concerned with the fundamental changes between the XP and Vista operating systems; performance issues; the requirement for a desktop refresh; and last but not least

Springboard Series VRT- Windows 7 App Compatibility

Few of you had asked me about the Application Compatibility in Windows 7. There were lots of questions posed to me as in.., what was new in ACT 5.5? Will the challenge in Windows 7 be more? What is Microsoft’s thought on reducing the compatiblity issues? Etc..! This post is exclusively for you guys. Springboard

VirtualStore: File / Registry Virtualization in Windows 7 – Video

Here is a video which explains the File/Registry Virtualization Phenomenon, its limitation and benefits along with a small demo. I have also attached the executable which i have used in this video. You can try the same too..!! Click here Also See – User Account Control (UAC) Basics and Security Features in Windows 7 –

Webinar: Application Compatiblity in Windows 7

On April 30th, the Changebase team is doing a webinar on Application Compatiblity and challenges w.r.t Windows 7, Vista and Virtualization. Agenda: 14:30 – 14:45Intro to ChangeBASE 14:45 – 15:30Application Compatibility – what are the issues for Win 7, Vista and Virtualisation? See results from the AOK App Compat Lab looking at findings for VISTA,

Windows 7 Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5: Interview with Jeremy Chapman

Last week, Stephan Rose had a chat with Jeremy Chapman on the Engineering enhancements which underwent in ACT 5.5 for Windows 7. Here’z an excerpt of that conversation. http://blogs.technet.com/springboard/archive/2009/04/03/windows-7-application-compatibility-toolkit-5-5-interview-with-jeremy-chapman.aspx Also, For Application Compatibility and UAC Tools- Check this link

How do I Solve Compatibility Issues use AppCompat Flags?

Just a small info on Application Compatibility.., Flag registry keys does solve the app launch UAC problems on Vista/ Windows 7. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers] “C:\Program Files\ABC\law.exe”=”RUNASADMIN” In this hive, give in the exe name, along with the runas key. This will solve much of our problem. Also the document attached should be of real help to

Want to Package Device Driver Applications? – Well, use DPInst.exe – Simple!

When a Driver application gets installed on to a machine, it installs driver information like PNF, INF, CAT files in the location “C:\Windows\inf”. By default, these files will be named as oemXX.pnf or oemXX.inf where XX stands for the number. Ex: oem1.INF, oem1.PNF and so on. So when we do a capture of such applications,

How good is to use GetVersion function to detect the OS version number?

The internal version number for Windows Vista is 6.0 and Windows 7 is 6.1.  The GetVersion function returns this version number. The problem is, some applications will return a higher version number.  Symptoms of OS Version  Applications that check for OS version will get higher version number. Application installers may prevent themselves from installing the

APPCRASH Messages – Overview and Example Scenarios

Vista and Windows 7 have a variety of fault-protection systems that try to prevent a crashing application from taking down your entire computer. When Windows Vista detects that an application has crashed, it terminates it and generates an Appcrash error report. This report is useful, since it can be sent to Microsoft Team. Most of

How to check an Executable for Manifests and Digital Signing?

To avoid UAC prompts for applications on launch, there exists a manifest file which contains key information on the privileges. Many times, these manifest files are present along with the executable in the same directory. For example: Altair.exe will have a manifest file called Altair.exe.manifest in the same directory. There can also be cases where

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