@MalwareMinigun is Billy O'Neal BTW. I have a Wikipedia article about this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Upgrade_Readiness https://en.wikipedia.or

@MalwareMinigun is Billy O'Neal BTW. I have a Wikipedia article about this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Upgrade_Readiness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Upgrade_Readiness Appraiser not only consumes CPU (and HDD/SSD!) time, but is also technically quite interesting as well. For example it loads a simple kernel driver (nxquery.sys) into your Windows 7 machine to read a MSR to determine if NX has been disabled in the BIOS.