So we take this:

Active Setup is a mechanism for executing commands once per user early during login. Active Setup is used by some operating system components like Internet Explorer to set up an initial configuration for new users logging on for the first time. Active Setup is also used in some corporations’ software distribution systems to create an initial customized user environment.
(Wikipedia)

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It must be pointed out that the “Active Setup” mechanism has never been publicly documented and Microsoft will not necessarily support any use of Active Setup by any component that doesn’t ship within the Windows product.  There are lots of undocumented mechanisms.  In general, people representing Microsoft should not recommend their use — at least not without plenty of caveats.  My $0.02.
(Aaron Margosis)

For result:

Microsoft does not support the migration of non-Microsoft Active Setup registry entries.  If you want to in-place upgrade to Windows 10 in your enterprise, you have to migrate the keys manually.

Related posts:

Windows 2000 had Active Directory folders. Seen @ blogs.technet.com: W2K3 to W2K8 Active Directory Upgrade Considerations “No, you can’t upgrade Internet Explorer 6”

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