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SoftwareShield™ Compatability

Compatible Operating Systems

The following operating systems are supported by SoftwareShield™.

Operating System	Development Environment. Software Development Kit Operating Systems:	Deployment. Protect Your Software on any of these Operating Systems:
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows Vista 64 Bit Edition
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2000
Windows XP (including SP2)
Windows XP 64 Bit Edition
Windows 2000

Compatible Software File Formats

The following application formats are supported by SoftwareShield (version 4.5 or higher).

Standard PE 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications (.EXE outputs)
Adobe Flash applications (.EXE outputs)
.NET applications

Recommended Installers

Wise Installer applications (version 9)
Installshield Installer applications (version 9.x, 10.x)
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Virtual Machine Support

SoftwareShield License Manager can run in the following Virtualization software

Microsoft VirtualPC
VMware
Sun VirtualBox
QEMU
Bochs X86 PC emulator
Parallels Workstation

If your development environment is not mentioned above, please send a sample application to support@softwareshield.com to see if we can apply your executable file with SoftwareShield.