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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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Trouble installing keras with python 3.7.3

I am brand new to programming and python. I am having trouble installing keras for python 3.7.3. When I try to install keras it just return some very long error which I am not able to debug. I had a look on the keras webpage and it seems it has been…
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Will Windows 7 pop up a message when an application needs administrator privileges?

What will happen when I write an application that needs to do something "adminable"? Like writing files to C:\Program Files - then, when the application tries to do this, what will happen? Will a message be popped up asking the user for a password?…
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System Idle Value cannot be calculated in windows 7 using window service in C#

I have used the code mentioned here to calculate the system Idle time through a window service. But in windows 7 & Vista I always get the LastInputInfo.dwTime as zero by which I cannot calculate the system idle time. I have given the code sample…
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Windows 7 MultiTouch .NET API for Windows Forms

Is there any library for multi touch capabilities of Windows 7 wrapped up for .NET? I mean this, but with .NET flavor. Some limitations however: I need it for DESKTOP development, and for Windows Forms, no WPF.
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Launch4j, NSIS, and duplicate pinned Windows 7 taskbar icons

I'm having a problem wherein when I pin a taskbar icon in Windows 7 for my application, clicking the icon opens up a separate (duplicate) icon for the program instead of keeping it grouped with the shortcut used to call it. The application itself is…
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How to pass URL parameters from Java to local HTML file in Windows 7?

I desperately need your expertise in resolving a Windows-7 issue. Scenario: I have a frame-based Help package that is set up for context-sensitive help calls. A Java application is able to control what page the Help packages opens to by passing a…
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How to get the number of open TCP connections held by a certain process in .NET

I need to monitor the number of open TCP connections held by a single process on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine from .NET 4.0. This article describes the undocumented Win32 API method "AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack" that accomploshes this task on 32…
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PowerShell script to display Notification balloon and take action only works in ISE gui, not from commandline

I've seen a bunch of closely related posts so I know i'm not alone, but none have given me the answer I'm looking for. Apologies if this has been asked and answered and I couldn't find it. this script creates a custom notification area balloon,…
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WPF JumpTask another icon than the default one?

I am using a WPF JumpTask object, and I would like my Windows 7 jumplist icon to be an icon from my own application - but not the default one. A different one. So how do I do this? I guess I specify a different icon resource index. But how do I even…
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Start-Process -WindowStyle Maximized doesn't maximize window

It seems that: Start-Process -WindowStyle Maximized 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\ONENOTE.EXE' starts OneNote in a window style regardless the parameter is Maximized or Minimized: If the last time is normal or maximized, then it…
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Get directories included in Windows Media Center libraries

I'm writing an add-in for Media Center (the version that comes with Windows 7) and want to retrieve the list of physical directories which the user has included in the media libraries (pictures, videos, recorded tv, movies, music). The Media Center…
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VC++ programs build in Windows 7 don't run on Windows Xp

I have created a small WIN32 Console Application in Visual C++ in Windows 7. When I try to run this application on Windows Xp it gives me an error saying This application has failed to start because MSVCR100D.dll was not found. Re-installing…
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Does Windows 7 restrict folder access as Vista does?

I noticed that in my application, most compatibility problems were caused by 'access denied' for some folders, such as: Application Data [C:\ProgramData] Desktop [C:\Users\Public\Desktop] Documents [C:\Users\Public\Documents] Favorites…
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Execute tests in RubyMine causes "uninitialized constant Spring::Client::Run::UNIXSocket" on Windows 7

In RubyMine, I try to run tests in debug (equivalent to rails test, but with debug mode in RubyMine). I get this log in RubyMine console: Testing started at 08:44 ... C:\Ruby23-x64\bin\ruby.exe…
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Is there a Preview Handler VCL for Windows 7?

This article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb776867.aspx describes preview handlers in Windows as Preview handlers are called when an item is selected to show a lightweight, rich, read-only preview of the file's contents in the…
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