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ACT Community Ratings and Process

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista

The Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) Community uses the Microsoft® Compatibility Exchange to share compatibility ratings between all registered ACT Community members.

When you access the Microsoft Compatibility Exchange as a registered ACT Community member, you can upload your compatibility data to the community and download issues from other ACT Community members. For information about how compatibility ratings are entered, see Selecting Your Compatibility Rating.

ACT takes your information and combines it with all of the information provided by the other ACT Community users and shows the average rating as a color gradient from one to five bars.

ACT Community

Process for Synchronizing Compatibility Ratings

The following diagram shows the process for synchronizing compatibility ratings with the ACT Community.

You have the option to exclude applications from being shared with the Microsoft Compatibility Exchange. However, you will not get compatibility ratings from the ACT Community for any application that you exclude. For more information, see Sending and Receiving Compatibility Data.

ACT community workflow

See Also

Tasks

Selecting the Send and Receive Status for an Application
Sending and Receiving Compatibility Data

Concepts

Data Sent Through the Microsoft Compatibility Exchange