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Updated March 16, 2009: Somebody updated these links with the 4.0 version (which kind of defeats the purpose of having these links so I’m not sure what they were thinking) but they’re back to the 3.x version now. Hey, there’s a new version of Application
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The same question came up two times in 26 minutes (on the same discussion list, no less), so I figured I’d answer it once here as that seems a reasonable indicator that others may have the same question. What is the deal with shimming on Windows Vista
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A question came up via comments. (I was going to say that it came up recently, but another glance reveals that it came up in, oh, June. I don’t think I can fairly call that recent…) “…the fix seems only to work if the directory structure exists…” This
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When you come across issues debugging applications, there are typically several ways to solve them. Today, I'm going to pick on our own stuff and throw a few different shims at it. Interestingly enough, what I'm going to be shimming up will be the tool
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It seems like just yesterday I was posting about ACT 5.0.2 being released, but we just released ACT 5.0.3 . Now, I've had a couple of people confused about the version numbers we talk about, and what they actually see. For, rather unfortunately, you didn't
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If you run the Internet Explorer Compatibility Evaluator on Windows Vista, you get back some data when an ActiveX control tries to write to a file that a standard user used to be able to write to. However, that data doesn't show up when you are using
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Last week, we updated the documentation for the Application Compatibility Toolkit. It's kind of hidden, though - if you go to the Application Compatibility Toolkit download page , you will find a new item in the list of files: ACT50_Doc_Update_Installation_Instructions.zip
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Every now and again, I bump up against a setup application (it's almost always a setup application) that tries to drop older versions of protected operating system files. It's fairly easy to mitigate, but I thought I would go through some of the mechanics,
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I received a request to talk about a particular shim. And yes, I received that request over a month ago, so ... sorry about that. Nonetheless, I've managed to scratch out a little niche of time to discuss the shim: OpenDirectoryAcl Yep, this does exactly
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A comment came up on a recent posting regarding modules, inquiring about processes. Specifically: Do these included/excluded modules have to be in the same process, or can they include other processes too? (I have an application that calls multiple child
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I received one comment on my recent blog post on copying from the system shim database, which I think is worthy of discussion as I have heard similar questions before: I have found previously (under Windows XP, haven't attempted under Vista) that some
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I hear about a bug now and again with Compatibility Administrator [CompatAdmin]. It always surprises me when I hear about the bug, because you can only hit it if you are trying to do something that there is no point in doing (which is why we never caught
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A question came up in the comments of one of my posts, and I think the answer is important enough to elevate to more than just another comment (and I didn't even answer completely in that quick response). When you are configuring a shim and press the
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A while back, I write about the Correct File Paths shim . Since that time, I've heard from a number of folks who are using the shim, helping them to configure the command line to fix applications (with the most common explanation being to "quote the pairs"
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I figured this day would come, and to be honest, I'm a little bit surprised it took as long as it did for me to run into this in the wild. But this week, I finally came across an installer that somebody had devised which would check to see if UAC was
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