Active Setup

Are you still using Active Setup to distribute per-user files or registry values? If so, stop! There are better ways to manage initial user settings. This article assumes basic knowledge of Active Setup. You might want to refresh your memory by reading my article Active Setup Explained.

ShMgrate.exe is an executable file in Windows XP and Server 2003 and one of those files that are documented nowhere. I will try to shed a little light on this tool in this article.

This is a summary of my experience with Active Setup combined with what I could find on the internet. The information applies to older and current versions of Windows, up to and including Windows 7, Windows 10, Server 2016, Server 2019.