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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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How do I force my .NET application to run as administrator?

Once my program is installed on a client machine, how do I force my program to run as an administrator on Windows 7?
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The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

We are unable to connect to an HTTPS server using WebRequest because of this error message: The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. We know that the server doesn't have a valid HTTPS certificate with the path used, but to…
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Git Bash is extremely slow on Windows 7 x64

I've been using Git on both Windows and Ubuntu during the development of a small project, frequently flipping back and forth between the two. The issue is that Git Bash consistently becomes slow. When I say slow, I mean that running cd takes…
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How to recursively delete an entire directory with PowerShell 2.0?

What is the simplest way to forcefully delete a directory and all its subdirectories in PowerShell? I am using PowerShell V2 in Windows 7. I have learned from several sources that the most obvious command, Remove-Item $targetDir -Recurse -Force,…
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How to set java_home on Windows 7?

I went to the Environment Variables in 'System' in the control panel and made two new variables, one for user variables and one for system variables. Both were named JAVA_HOME and both pointing to C:\Sun\SDK\jdk\bin But for some reason, I still…
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ng is not recognized as an internal or external command

Running windows 7 Professional 32bit. I tried running npm install -g angular-cli both under normal or admin. I also tried adding it to the Enviorment Variables under PATH: (C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\bin\ng)…
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How to Delete node_modules - Deep Nested Folder in Windows

Upon trying to remove the node_modules directory created by npm install: The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file system. Try moving to a location which has a shorter path name, or try renaming to shorter name(s)…
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How do I change the default location for Git Bash on Windows?

I am using Git on Windows 7 and access my repositories through Git Bash. How can I change the default location that Git Bash opens in a convenient folder when I start it? It's somewhat time consuming to navigate to htdocs, and then a specific…
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port forwarding in windows

I have two network board in my pc: The main one has the local ip -> 192.168.1.111 The secondary ones has the local ip -> 192.168.0.200 The main one has internet connection and the second one is connected to a device with the IP 192.168.0.33, it has…
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HttpListener Access Denied

I am writing an HTTP server in C#. When I try to execute the function HttpListener.Start() I get an HttpListenerException saying "Access Denied". When I run the app in admin mode in windows 7 it works fine. Can I make it run without admin mode?…
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Why does only the first line of this Windows batch file execute but all three lines execute in a command shell?

I have a batch file that executes three Maven commands, one after the other. Each command can be successfully executed in the script - by itself!. But when I add all three commands to the same file, only the first one executes before the script…
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Run a batch file with Windows task scheduler

I have a batch file daily.bat, this is the code: cd C:\inetpub\wwwroot\infoweb\factuur\cron c:\PHP\php.exe -f ./cron_pdf.php ftp -s:ftp_upload.txt ftp.site.be And I created a task with task scheduler in Windows 7. When I run the batch manually,…
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How can I create a self-signed cert for localhost?

I've gone through the steps detailed in How do you use https / SSL on localhost? but this sets up a self-signed cert for my machine name, and when browsing it via https://localhost I receive the IE warning. Is there a way to create a self-signed…
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Cython: "fatal error: numpy/arrayobject.h: No such file or directory"

I'm trying to speed up the answer here using Cython. I try to compile the code (after doing the cygwinccompiler.py hack explained here), but get a fatal error: numpy/arrayobject.h: No such file or directory...compilation terminated error. Can anyone…
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Telnet is not recognized as internal or external command, even after activation

I am trying to perform port forwarding to connect two emulators using TCP protocol on Windows. Although I have enabled TCP client program from control Panel, "telnet" command is not recognized in Command Prompt. Could anyone help me to fix this?
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