1. WINDOWS 7 SOFTWARE LOGO TOOLKIT ALPHA RELEASE WALK-THROUGH

2. Overview Alpha Release Objectives: Provide software publishers a quick and agile, automated, light weight command-line tool to verify their application’s compliance against the Windows 7 Software Logo requirements. Minimum System Requirements: 1GHz 64bit (x64) Processor 1gb Ram 40gb hard drive with a minimum of 15gb free space Clean, 64bit, Windows 7 installation

3. To Get Help c:\Program Files\Microsoft Logo Tool\logtest.exe /? Note: Logotest.exe must be run in a command window with administrative permissions

4. HOW TO TEST AN APPLICATION

5. Step 1: Invoke LOGOTEST With /PREINSTALL Flag c:\Program Files\Microsoft Logo Tool\logotest.exe /preinstall /32bit or /64bit

6. Step 2: Install Your Application

7. Step 3: Invoke LOGOTEST with /POSTINSTALL Flag c:\Program Files\Microsoft Logo Tool\logotest.exe /postinstall

8. Step 4: Run Your App To Check/Verify Functionality* * Note: Restart manager tests can report false positives with run-once and auto-updater modules. Best to disable any.

9. Step 5: Invoke LOGOTEST with /PREUNISTALL Flag c:\Program Files\Microsoft Logo Tool\logotest.exe /preuninstall

10. Step 6: Uninstall Your Application

11. Step 7: Invoke LOGOTEST with /POSTINSTALL Flag c:\Program Files\Microsoft Logo Tool\logotest.exe /postuninstall

12. Step 8: Generate The XML Report c:\Program Files\Microsoft Logo Tool\logotest.exe /createreport

13. Interpreting The Results Verify the result (pass/fail) for each requirement and their corresponding tests via the generated.xml log file created in step #8. Results as raw.xml resultsResults with applied.xsl stylesheet