Windows 7 Embedded is an operating system designed to bring Windows 7 features to embedded devices. This tag should be used exclusively for programming questions related directly to Windows 7 Embedded; general software issues not directly related to programming are off-topic and should be directed to Super User.
Questions tagged [windows-7-embedded]
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Conversion from String to Date error appearing on window embedded but not on windows 10
I have a problem which appears on windows7embedded 32bit but not on my windows10 64bit developing desktop. I run the exactly same code.
I have a variable as Date which contains date and time.
Then I put it into a function as string. In the function…

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Installing MSVC redistributables on Windows 7 embedded standard
I have built a DLL that will be used on a machine running windows 7 embedded standard.
Now that I'm trying to integrate it, it complains about missing MSVCP140.dll.
No big deal, I just have to install the redistributables. However, to install the…

Florian Humblot
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.NET 2.0 ThreadPool Thread Stack Increase Causing Out of Memory Exception (Commit Limit Reached)
OS: Windows 7 Embedded
RAM: 1 GB
Paging File Size: 500 MB
Remaining Disk Space: ~1 GB
.NET: 2.0
I am working on a .NET 2.0 Winforms application written in C# that is running on Windows 7 Embedded, where the system only has 1 GB of RAM, and fairly…

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Change IP as user with powershell script on Win 7
On my Windows 7 Embedded machine I want to change the IP address via Powershell script as an user.
For that I added my user to the "Network Configuration Operators" group and wrote the following script.
param(
[string]$Type
)
Write-Host…

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Reduce "BACKLIGHT" brightness in windows Embedded standard 7 using vc++
Is it possible to reduce the "Backlight brightness" in Windows Embedded standard 7, Monitor:Samsung DE40A programmatically with vc++ ? It is possible to reduce monitor backlight brightness with the monitor's remote.
I have been able to reduce…

Shruthi
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Speech recognition engine is not installed on PosReady7
I've been trying to use an application that I made on the PosReady7 that uses System.Speech, but I'm receiving an error message informing:
No recognizer of the required ID found
I already tried to install the following .exe files, but any of them…

Leandro Oliveira
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Not receiving arguments from batch script
I've created a simple program for moving files around in a system running win 7 embedded. I've run into a strange "bug" with my software and the way it handles startups.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if…

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Charting Control for Windows 7 CE with Silverlight 3
I have to implement charting controls(waveforms specifically) that can be n in number and have to plot them dynamically with certain range of values.
I am using Silverlight 3 for Windows Embedded and i have to code for an embedded device.
Windows…

Apoorv Upadhyay
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Programmatically set wake on time
We are creating a display system which we will be running on top of Windows 7 embedded.
The computers will not have keyboard or mouse, thus will have no direct user interaction.
Since these computers will only be used during certain times we would…

Mattias Åslund
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WS7E mount partition as directory
I need to mount a partition as a directory using Windows Standard 7 Embedded (WS7E).
Ordinarily, with Win7 (desktop) I use 'diskpart' to perform this task via CLI, or go through the disk management GUI menus. However, these tools are not present…

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Preventing Windows 7 embedded standard shutdown
Other similar question mostly target Windows XP, where everything was easier. =)
I'd like my application to be able to postpone the windows shutdown transparently, without having windows show this screen:
Is there any option left to me after the…

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How can I prevent OS from writing to disk
I want to prevent the Operating System from accessing the hard drive for short period of time.

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Is Anti malware available with any version of windows 7 embedded, Or please suggest any 3rd party anti malware for windows7 embedded
Is Anti malware available with any version of windows 7 embedded, or please suggest any 3rd party anti malware for windows7 embedded.
If available then let me know how to implement it?
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usbser.sys on Windows 7 Embedded, installed but not found
I've installed a barcode reader on a Windows 7 machine: it is configurated with virtual serial port mode.
At the initial moment the driver was not found; looking in the Windows folders I did not find the usbser.sys file.
So I installed the following…

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Touchcreen on Windows 7 Embedded
I have one of these MPI7001 7inch capacitive touchscreen device. This is documented in this link here.
I got it to work (display and touch) on Raspbian. However I need this to run on my windows 7 Embedded device. Display works ok but touch does not…

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