The UAC Compatibility Evaluator and Elevation on Windows Vista

posted by  techgeek (12)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

The release candidate of the Application Compatibility Toolkit is here, and it's good stuff. I've had to resort to sniffing around with a debugger to find many issues with this one, and it's still improving for the final release!

I am particularly impressed by what the team has put together for compatibility evaluators. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the tool, you can deploy a data collection package (DCP) that does more than just collect inventory - it actively shims system functions looking for known issues that could trigger compatibility issues after a migration to Wind