depothilt.blogg.se - Microsoft application compatibility toolkit

#MICROSOFT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY TOOLKIT INSTALL#
#MICROSOFT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY TOOLKIT WINDOWS 7#

In order for an application to be analyzed and fixed, an entry for it must appear in the ACT database. ACT helps customers lower their costs for application compatibility testing, prioritize their applications, and deploy Windows more quickly.”

#MICROSOFT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY TOOLKIT WINDOWS 7#

The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.5 helps customers understand their application compatibility situation by identifying which applications are compatible with the Windows 7 RC and Windows Vista® operating system and which require further testing. In response to these known issues, you can use ACT to locate your affected applications, to determine the actual impact on your organization, and finally, to create a solution to minimize or to fix the issue for each application. These compatibility issues tend to occur in a few specific areas of the operating system…. “Innovation related to Windows Vista and Windows 7 might occasionally cause compatibility issues. In the following paragraphs, Microsoft explains its free Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT): A very small number of ITS staff will collate the data and proceed with analyzing it.įor those that are interested, more details and explanations follow in the note below by Sande Nissen, ITS Systems Administrator. No personal information or user documents are inspected or logged. This program gathers information about which applications are installed, and how they interact with the operating system.

The ACT application will then terminate.

After that, another small program will run, sending the collected data to a folder on Collab.

It will run in the background for the next 5 days.

(Once started, it may affect performance slightly on your computer for up to 10 minutes.).

You do not have to do anything for this application to work.

(See Details below to tell whether this program will run on your Windows computer.)

#MICROSOFT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY TOOLKIT INSTALL#

The ACT application will install and start automatically on your Windows computer someday this week.(It was already run on computers in Academic Departments earlier this year.) ITS is scheduling to run this application on Windows computers in Administrative Departments this week. In order to prepare Carleton for the transition to Vista/Windows 7 (currently envisaged for summer, 2010), Microsoft recommends running its Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) on desktop and laptop Windows computers on campus. If you do not run Windows on any of your computers at Carleton, you can skip the rest of this notice. This note applies only to the Windows operating system. This message is about an application which will automatically install and run on some Windows computers in Administrative Departments this week.