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Writing software specific to the Microsoft Windows operating system: APIs, behaviours, etc. GENERAL WINDOWS SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. Support questions may be asked on https://superuser.com

General support questions for Windows should be asked on Super User

Windows is a family of graphical operating systems developed by Microsoft for server, client, and mobile platforms.

Recent Versions

  • Windows 10 was released on July 29, 2015.

  • Windows 8.1, the first significant update to Windows 8, was released on October 17, 2013.

  • Windows 8, the successor to Windows 7, was released to the market on October 26, 2012. It was designed to be used on both tablets and conventional PCs.

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If your question relates to using Windows APIs or Windows-specific behavior with a particular version of Windows, use the tag for that particular version – for example:

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Error: spawn npm ENOENT

I have an JS app. It works good on linux but in windows 10 I am getting an error. events.js:161 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^ Error: spawn npm ENOENT at exports._errnoException (util.js:1028:11) at…
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Where is the dotnet command executable located on Windows?

I am exploring the new Entity Framework Core (NOT in conjunction with ASP.Net, what I am coding is just a WinForms app) and found some tutorials mentioning a dotnet command line command needed to create "migrations". When I try it, however, it says…
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reading an application's manifest file?

Is there an easy way to read an application's already embedded manifest file? I was thinking along the lines of an alternate data stream?
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Find Programming Language Used

Whats the easiest way to find out what programming language an application was written in? I would like to know if its vb or c++ or delphi or .net etc from the program exe file.
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Get error code from within a batch file

I have a batch file that runs a couple executables, and I want it to exit on success, but stop if the exit code <> 0. How do I do this?
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CMake -G Ninja on Windows specify x64

I am using CMake on Windows with Ninja generator cmake -G Ninja .. This uses the default Windows x86 toolchain. How to specify x64 using the Ninja generator? PS: I know how to generate x64 with Visual Studio cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64…
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Can I set an environment variable for an application using a shortcut in Windows?

I have a feeling I should be able add a directory to the PATH environment variable on an application-lifetime basis, but I can't find out how to do this. Is it possible to add a parameter to a Windows shortcut that appends a directory to the current…
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Where is the Chocolatey installation path?

I am looking to find out the current Chocolatey installation path using PowerShell.
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Standard Windows menu bars in Windows Forms

I noticed that adding a MenuStrip (from the Toolbox) to my form design doesn't yield a menu bar like the one seen in many native Windows applications. Instead I get a menu bar like Visual Studio's own. None of the style settings for MenuStrip appear…
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How can we stop a running java process through Windows cmd?

I am a newbie in cmd, so please allow me to ask a stupid question: How can we stop a running Java process through Windows cmd? For example, if we start Jetty (a mini web server) with the following command: start javaw -jar start.jar How do we find…
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Running Cython in Windows x64 - fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'basetsd.h': No such file or directory

I have been trying to install Cython for Python 2.7 on my Window 7 system. In particular, I prefer everything in 64 bits. (In case you wonder, I need Cython because Cython is one of the components I need for another package for some specialized…
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protractor/selenium "could not find chromedriver at" (on Windows)

I installed protractor following this tutorial and when i use webdriver-manager update it says: selenium standalone is up to date. chromedriver is up to date. thou when i try to run the protractor tests, it…
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How can I bold the fonts of a specific row or cell in an Excel worksheet with C#?

I am exporting data from a List<> to excel. I want to make some specific rows and cells bold. I need to make some cell merged also. Below is the code I am using. try { Excel.Application application; Excel.Workbook…
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Why does the Windows registry exist?

this is more OS architecture question than programming directly, but still. Why was the Windows registry created as a completely separate subsystem for storing system/application settings? In *nix OS'es there is /etc directory which is perfectly…
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The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Negotiate'. The authentication header received from the server was 'NTLM'

Few days ago I had quite a headache with authentication problems when using Windows authentication between client and wcf web service. The error I was getting was "The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Negotiate'. The…
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