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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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Output sound through speaker when not logged in

I have a program written in Delphi XE that plays a WAV file using TMediaPlayer. The program runs in the system tray on a Windows 7 computer. The program waits for an event to trigger playing the wav file. If I am logged in on the computer itself,…
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Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache) returns empty string in ASP.Net project

I am developing ASP.Net project (framework 2.0) on local machine (Windows 7). IIS 7.5 is the local webserver. When I run the project locally Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache) returns empty string. I am a bit…
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Bypassing elevation when launching a new process

OK, here's my problem: I'm trying to launch a third-party application. This application is apparently configured to require elevation, presumably via an embedded manifest. My program is running in the context of a non-administrative user, and I…
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How can i find the order of the taskbar items in Windows 7?

I would like to establish what is the order of the taskbar items in Windows 7. The reason is that I would like to create an script (written in AutoHotkey or C#) that restore a set of icons to a previous determined order. I wan't to do this because…
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Multiple layers of Application Data folders - Windows7

In a command window If I navigate to c:\users\me and do "dir", I see 13 folders but no files. If I do "dir /s", I see thousands of files, but what bothers me is that I see paths like this: C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Application Data\Application…
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How to open port 80 for Apache, previously occupied by Visual Studio's servers?

I installed Visual Studio 2010 after WAMP and had to turn on IIS. Now I want to use my WAMP but my Apache is not turning on even after I have disabled IIS and even uninstalled my Visual Studio 2010.
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OpenFileDialog does not show complete filename in Windows 7

OpenFileDialog does not show complete filename in Windows 7. The problem is also reported connect.microsoft.com. There is also a work around by setting openFileDialog.AutoUpgradeEnabled = false. But that causes old xp style dialog. Is there any way…
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Setting timezone programatically only works for + UTC timezones

I've written the following code to programatically set timezones on my machine. It works fine if I use a positive UTC time, New Zealand Standard Time for example. If I use a negative UTC time, such as Mountain Standard Time, the code runs without…
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WPF application that claims desktop real estate similar to windows taskbar

I'm building a WPF application that is designed to act as a notification toolbar for sending messages to users of an enterprise software platform. It's a bar that is a specific height, stretching all the way across the bottom of the user's desktop,…
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WAMP Stack PHP "Fatal error: Class 'SoapClient' not found"

I have a WAMP (windows (7), apache, mysql, php) stack all setup and running. All is well and it is working and running as expected. I use the machine primarily for development however it is accessible to the outside world. Anyways.. I recently come…
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Install Visual Studio 2002 on Windows 7 or Vista

I want to install Visual Studio 2002 on Window 7(32bit). When I try it gives me error of .NET Framework 1.0 incompatibility. I can install Framework 1.1. fine on the machine but VS 2002 needs 1.0. Note: I am aware of VS 2002 and Framework 1.0 are…
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Shell Namespace Extension fails to load in Windows 7

I'm currently trying to create a custom Shell Namespace Extension (for presenting a virtual folder containing "subfolders" and "files", which are actually the representation of data in a hierarchical tree structure from a remote service). The…
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Can't connect to MySQL server on localhost (10061) on window 7

I am having window 7 as a operating system in the production machine where i am trying to use MySQL server 5.0 as a database. But i am unable to configure MySQL on my production machine. Following is the error i am receiving. The security setting…
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Win7 progress bar on the application icon in the task bar?

I was wondering how you can turn the application icon in the task bar on windows 7 into a progress bar. I noticed some other applications doing this such as IE9, when you download the icon shows the download progress in the task bar. Can someone…
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How to avoid 12 seconds delay when disonnecting from share in Windows 7?

I'm making some utils that uses NetUseAdd and NetUseDel functions to connect/disconnect to share. In Windows 7 I noticed that between calling NetUseDel and real disconnnection passes nearly 12 seconds. I made some investigations and found that net…
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