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Use for questions about programming with or for Windows 7, a past release of Microsoft Windows. General software or troubleshooting questions not directly related to programming are off topic and should be posted on Super User

Windows 7 is an edition of Microsoft Windows, released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009. Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista, which was released three years prior, and is succeeded by Windows 8.

A fully detailed description of Windows 7 can be found at the Wikipedia page on Windows 7 and also on the Microsoft website. It's based on the Windows NT line of Windows.

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What PHP, Xdebug and Eclipse configurations work on Windows 7 64 bit?

I have been mucking around for days, trying to find the right combination that lets me debug with breakpoints and variable viewing, in Eclipse, without crashing Apache. PHP 5.3? PHP 5.2? Eclipse Helios? Eclipse Galileo? One or the other with…
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Using ADSI Edit on WIN-7

I am not able to find out the ADSI EDIT on WIN-7, any help in this regard. Any installing instruction ! PS. Install the ADSI Edit, error on launch:"MMC could not create the snap-in" Is RSAT still available for Win7? Thanks
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bat file commands - how to cut file and replace existing file

I need to swap out a file with data (original) to a dummy file with no data. I need to switch back and forth between these tow files on a regular basis. As a safe way to not delete files, I thought the best way would be to rename the original file,…
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Why does Perl lose foreign characters on Windows; can this be fixed (if so, how)?

Note below how ã changes to a. NOTE2: Before you blame this on CMD.EXE and Windows pipe weirdness, see Experiment 2 below which gets a similar problem using File::Find. The particular problem I'm trying to fix involves working with image files…
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Command line commands with C

I'm sorry if this was covered before, but I can't find it anywhere on StackOverflow. Basically I'm trying to run things that you usually run at a Windows command prompt: msiexec /i file.msi /q and other sort of commands from my C program. Is this…
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Adding properties to details pane in Windows 7 and Vista for my application file type

I have a file type for my application for which i want to show some custom information in Details Pane(which appears at the bottom) in windows explorer in vista and win 7. Like Microsoft Word file type (.docx) has properties on Details Pane in vista…
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Windows Update API with C# not finding any installed updates

I have a number of Windows 7 PC's that need patching with a particular Windows update, using the Windows Update API in a C# console app. The API needs to search the installed updates and report back if it's already installed and perform the…
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IE 11 on Windows 7 VS IE 11 on Windows 10

Could anyone please detail the difference between IE 11 on windows 7 and IE 11 on windows 10. My organization has done lot of testing while moving from IE 8 to IE 11 on windows 7 and now they want to upgrade to windows 10. However before moving to…
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Python: print all contents of a pyenchant dictionary

I have loaded a non english dictionary using hunspell type .dic and .aff files. I can check a word in the dictionary by using d=enchant.Dict('my_lang') d.check('my_word') The .dic file contains all base forms and the . aff file contains all…
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Python Pydub Permission denied?

When i run this code : from pydub import AudioSegment sound = AudioSegment.from_mp3("i.mp3") sound.export("F:\\bh", format="wav") A ffmpeg window pops up and i get this error: Even if i run it with admin privilleges: Note : The error occurs…
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How to detect if folder is not empty (Windows Batch File)?

Using a simple batch file, compatible with the command processor in Windows 7, how can one detect if a folder has any contents (meaning one or more files or subfolders, i.e. not empty)? I tried: IF EXIST C:\FOLDERNAME\* GOTO ROUTINE But this always…
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Does anybody have experience with Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7?

Has anyone already tried this, anything particulair that I need to be aware of?
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Running activex dll fromVB6 under windows 7

I'm adding some functionality to an old admin tool written in VB6. The tool uses a c++ activeX object. I haven't worked on the tool since I upgraded to windows 7 and now the active X object fails to load with the 429 "ActiveX component can't create…
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tchar.h not found on cygwin

I'm running the latest cygwin on windows 7 (32-bit), and trying to build an open-source project, RtAudio (it doesn't currently build on this platform). One of the problems I've worked around is an error on the line #include . My build…
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How can I turn off "convert and copy" dialog for Windows Portable Devices?

Under Windows 7, when I copy an mp3 file to my iRiver H10 I always get a dialog box offering to "convert and copy" the file, or "No, just copy". The mp3 files are not copy protected. The H10 is an mp3 & wma player connected via USB, but does not…
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