Application Virtualization Explorer technical requirements

Application Virtualization Explorer has the following minimum system requirements:

• From Windows 7 SP1 to latest Windows 11 operating system (including both x86 and x64 platforms)
• From Windows 2008 R2 to latest Windows 2022 operating system (x64 platforms)
• Microsoft .NET Framework runtime 4.X installed

Application Virtualization Explorer supports packages created with the following App-V versions (pre-5.0 packages supported only by AVE Professional product edition):

• SoftGrid 2.X
• SoftGrid 3.X
• SoftGrid 4.0/4.1/4.2
• App-V 4.5
• App-V 4.6
• App-V 5.0
• App-V 5.1
• Windows 10/11 App-V

Note on 64-bit and 32-bit system support for 4.6+ packages

While Application Virtualization Explorer allows editing of 32-bit App-V packages in 64-bit systems and 64-bit App-V packages in 32-bit systems, resulting packages need to be run on clients according to Microsoft's version compatibility matrix.