Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0
Carry Dusablon
The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) is a lifecycle management tool that assists in identifying and managing your overall application portfolio, reducing the cost and time involved in resolving application compatibility issues, and helping you quickly deploy Windows and Windows updates.
Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) installs a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of the Compatibility Administrator tool. You must use the 32-bit version to create and work with custom databases for 32-bit applications, and the 64-bit version to create and work with custom databases for 64-bit applications.
Thanks JRp, app name is called snmpc and in the application there is a module that need to be admin, i looked at the link i followed all those still no luck. How can i check if that is using anyother process.
This will redirect the application call from the Programdata location to the Z drive. The Z could be a user mapped drive or any location you would prefer it go to. Keeping in mind that only the EXE(s) that you specify will only be redirected.
The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) helps customers understand their application compatibility situation by identifying which applications are compatible with the Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating system and which require further testing. ACT helps customers lower their costs for application compatibility testing, prioritize their applications, and deploy Windows more quickly.
Main Features:
- Verify an application's compatibility with a new version of the Windows operating system, or a Windows Update, including determining your risk assessment.
- Become involved in the ACT Community, including sharing your risk assessment with other ACT users.
- Test your Web applications and Web sites for compatibility with new releases and security updates to the Windows Internet Explorer Internet browser.
If it works, your application is ready to use. If not, you have a broken app that may need some extra TLC to get working. The good news is that additional application compatibility is built into Windows, which you can access by using the Application Compatibility Toolkit.
In the Compatibility Modes section, you can choose a specific compatibility mode to use for the application. I happen to have an application that we distribute to end users that works perfectly well in Windows 7, but the application must run in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode. I use a custom shim database for this application and distribute it to systems that run this app when the app is deployed. This prevents end users from seeing errors and keeps them from either submitting support tickets or needing to know that they need to manually configure application compatibility for the app.
Advancing to the Compatibility Fixes screen will show you the fixes that are applied for the Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode, along with all of the other fixes that can be applied to an application.
Shim databases are installed serially, so you can technically have as many as you want. But, if you have lots of shimmed applications, you may want to consolidate them into one database since each database is referenced any time an executable on the system is launched.
Apart from the handful of settable application compatibility settings available in compatibility tab, there's a whole swag of them, and Windows has an engine that detects and automatically applies quite a few, without user ever seeing this behind the scenes work. I know you can use the Application Compatibility Toolkit to set them manually but, before I tinker with those, is there any way to read/view what compatibility settings Windows is currently using for a specific program?This is exploratory work to improve performance/display of an old 32 bit program and not (just yet) anything I can put a finger on or anything specific that is broken completely.I know there are several layers of application compatibility in effect. I want to be able to view all/total compatibility settings in effect for specific program.I dont need code etc, if i need to code i can do that myself. just need to know where to look to get at ALL application compatibility settings in effect for program.
I would highly recommend installing the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit. This is the new version of the Application Compatibility Toolkit (and you don't have to use SQL!). This way you will be able to see what settings are applied to what applications.
It allows you to see the compatibility database and search for your exe if its included in the list of known programs with compatibility. It also allows you to apply a larger range of compatibility options compared to the windows 10 built in options.
It does look like the Compatibility Toolkit / database works the same way on Windows 10 as it did on Win7. The exception being that Win10 database has more entries to games and is more up to date. Edit Then again comparing the databases it does appear that some games that had a compatibility fix in win7 are missing from win10 database.
That win95 compatibility options sets a huge list of shims for the game (75 to be exact). Sometimes it works and sometimes not. If you are really interested in finding out which shim does the trick you could start ACT and click on "Fix" and set up the path to the .exe, etc and then choose the Windows 95 compatibility mode. After that you can view all the separate compatibility fixes and disable them one by one to see which ones really matter. It can be a bit time consuming and tedious though. ;-)
In your IT life you might have came across lot of issues with UAC prompt. Most of the times you may have to provide admin privilege to user in order to run just a single application because of UAC. But if we are giving Admin privilege to user, the system might be at huge risk. Sometimes Windows built-in utility RUNAS also will not work because the application requires manual elevation.
You can install this application with default behaviour. Once you completed the installation, you will get two main programs. From these two programs you can chose the right executable based on the architecture of the application on which we need to bypass UAC. In this blog I will demonstrate with 32Bit architecture and the OS is Windows 10 Professional.
Navigate to Start>All Apps>Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit
open compatibility Administrator (32 Bit). You might be wondering why I chose 32bit executable. The reason is we are going to bypass UAC for a 32bit application. In your case if you need to bypass UAC on a 64bit app, you have to chose the appropriate Compatibility Administrator .
Click on the Fix button which is available on the application toolbar. Provide a DB name and description. Click browse and navigate to the application directory on which we need to bypass UAC and click on the application executable and click open. In this tutorial I am using an application called Lorex Client. If the user does not have admin privilege, this application requires manual elevation to run. This is why I chose this app for the tutorial. Once you click open you would get the following Window.
Your database is created. The next thing we have to do is we must save the DB is somewhere in the PC. It would be better if we can save the DB where the application lies. While saving the DB you can provide any name for the DB as you wish. Once the DB is saved, we must install the DB onto the PC by clicking the install button which is available in File menu.
Open the properties of the application on which we have bypassed UAC. In our case Lorex Client and click on tab compatibility and click on Change settings for all users.
Finished. From now on the application will run without any UAC prompt and without any admin privileges. Also if you want, you can remove the Application compatibility toolkit from the machine. The DB you have installed on the machine is enough to bypass UAC.
RunAsAdmin: The application should run only for administrators, must be launched with a full administrator access token, and will not run correctly in a standard user context. This requested execution level marking is reserved for pre-Windows Vista applications that require the user to be a member of the local Administrators group.
The number of UAC prompts in Windows 7 has been reduced significantly by Microsoft compared to Windows Vista. To increase security, applications are limited to standard user privileges in Windows Vista and Windows 7 (as well as newer versions of Windows that came out afterwards).
Click Next two times after a successful test to add the application to the list. It should be displayed with its name underneath the database entry. Repeat the above steps for other applications that require an UAC prompt.
It is then possible to test the new setting immediately to see if the changes have been successful. Most programs should start now without UAC prompt while some might refuse to start. It is possible to revert the changes by deleting the non-working applications from the database and running the sdbinst command afterwards again.
this looks great but what if I need to do this with a network application which is accessed over network share? Do I need to install Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit on every machine in my network and run db install?
but will not actually open up the IDE. I have been searching for ways that I could bypass this just for arduino.exe and have found that this could be done with Windows Application Compatibility toolkit as outlined here.
I have a USB mouse with programmable buttons; when I first got it, I disovered that they wouldn't send keystrokes to an application running with administrator privileges unless the mouse monitor had also started with administrator privileges.
Without too much fuss, I implemented a workaround by marking monitor.exe to be run as admin, and then used the Application Compatibility Toolkit to set-up RunAsInvoker. Subsequently, the monitor started normally (via HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) without a UAC prompt, and buttons mapped to keystrokes were sent to any other running application.
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