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Questions tagged [windows-7-embedded]

Windows 7 Embedded is an operating system designed to bring Windows 7 features to embedded devices. This tag should be used exclusively for programming questions related directly to Windows 7 Embedded; general software issues not directly related to programming are off-topic and should be directed to Super User.

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A certificate chain could not be built to a trusted root authority

During the installation of .NET Framework 4.6.2, I got an error: .NET Framework installation failed: -2146762486. A certificate chain could not be built to a trusted root authority A solution to the above-mentioned error is given at this MSDN…
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How to control power button press shutdown?

I'm working on a kiosk style application where I need to control the shutdown/restart of the PC when the power button is pressed. Thanks to this post, I'm about 90% of the way there. In control panel set the acpi power button press action to…
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How to test 1000 clients windows 7 clients

We have .net clients running on Windows 7 embedded with sql server express. These run disconnected and every so often will dial in to a central server and dump their information and pull down pertinent new info. We want to do a stress test of the…
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MessageBox doesn't show in Windows 7 Embedded

Consider a MessageBox to prompt the user to answer yes or no. It works in our XP machines and one Windows 7 build machine. However, it doesn't work on our Windows 7 Embedded machine. There is no error message, no MessageBox shows up. It just…
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Is it possible to run a .NET core 3.1 app on Windows 7 Embedded?

I am trying to run a .NET Core 3.1 WPF application on a Windows 7 Embedded VM. Unfortunately, Windows 7 Embedded does not officially support .NET Core. Is there a workaround to get this to work anyway? I have already tried publishing the app as a…
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WPF app does not start on Windows 7 Embedded - how to trace causes

I created a simple WPF app from Visual Studio project template (VS 2015). I only changed target framework to .Net 3.5 Client Profile. Then I had to remove the following assembly references Microsoft.CSharp and System.Xaml. Those are not present in…
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Vs2017 how to build target Windows 7

i have one project that runs on windows 7 machines Well windows 7 embeded, but that still uses win7 SDK. Its a combination of windows C# and C++ Under vs2017 i no longer have the option to build to the windows 7 target platform (C++ and c#), the…
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Custom Touch behavior in Windows 7 with Qt/QML application

I am developing a touch application for Windows 7 with Qt/QML. The end-user-device has Windows 7's native touch behavior, i.e.: When touching the screen, a point appears on the last-touched-point, and when ending the physical touch, Windows puts…
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Is it possible to configure a virtual network interface on Windows7?

On linux you can set up a virtual interface using ifconfig eth0:0 .... There's these questions: How do you create a virtual network interface on Windows? virtual network interface for windows But they talk about vpn or loopback. VPN wont work in…
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How to make windows freeze for short period of time

Can I make windows 7 freeze for a short period of time, during this time I want it to perform absolutely no action. In particular, the OS should not access to any storage device. My original idea was to crate an interrupt, however, I think that…
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Starting GUI application from Windows Service - Approaches

Note: Despite appearing as yet another question of the same matter, it's not, but choosing the right title seems hard so more appropriate title change is welcome. I'm trying to solve an issue of starting up GUI application (Windows Forms, .NET) from…
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C# create firewall rule to allow system to respond to pings?

I inherited a C# application and working on it. It creates some firewall rules programmatically. By default it disables everything on a specific interface, then allows a few specified TCP ports access, which is fine. I can't figure out how to…
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Running a simple python app on Windows 7 embedded gives an "Entry point not found error" and an "Error loading dll"

I am trying to run a simple small app I made in python on a device running Windows 7 embedded (2GB RAM, Intel Atom). I am creating an exe using pyinstaller (dev version, for supporting Python 3.6) When I run the exe I get the following error: the…
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Can an application written for Windows 7 run on Windows embedded standard 7 OS?

Looking to develop Win 7 embedded. However, 3rd party APIs run on standard Win 7 OS. Can I run these APIs on Win 7 Embedded?
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Building an embedded Windows OS for a variety of hardware platforms

Is there any way to build an XP embedded OS or build a Windows 7 standard embedded OS to support a variety of motherboards with generic drivers that still function at an acceptable level? Mostly it has to support different graphics drivers, chipset,…
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