Questions tagged [windows]
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
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Dell Latitude 7275 Touchscreen reactivation [closed]
I have a ‘Dell Latitude 7275’ and deactivated the touchscreen 1-2 years ago, but I can't remember how. I am currently trying to reactivate the touchscreen, but all the options I have tried so far have ...
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Windows 11: Explorer.exe crashing because of Faulting module name: UxTheme.dll, version: 10.0.22621.3810
Whenever I start Windows 11, it stays on blank screen. I have to press Ctrl + Alt + Del, and from the menu, start 'Task Manager' and from the Run New Task, have to execute 'Explorer.exe' multiple ...
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In the windows registry, what values are stored in microphone's (or any hardware's) LastUsedTimeStart key?
For example, checking the microphone usage in Discord, my key Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\microphone\NonPackaged\C:#Users#...
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Problem With Adding SFML 2.6.1 To Dev C++ (Linker Error)
I'm trying to add SFML 2.6.1 to Dev C++ (I use Windows 7). I added lib and include to Libraries and C++ Includes in Compiler Options; and added "-lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system" ...
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Python needs Windows Long Path
I tried to run this install: pip3 install msgraph-sdk
And it gave me this error:
It says I need to enable the Windows Long Path using this link:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/...
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C#, BluetoothLEAdvertisementWatcher hangs unexpectedly
I have created a hardware product that does a specific thing and sends data within a Manufacturer chunk of an advertisement packet. I've already written a fully functional app for iOs/Android for this ...
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Excel files stored in USB drive, seem to be altered after it got plugged on to a computer [closed]
my boss gave me a usb thumb drive to save some music in it. In the drive there was already saved some excel spreadsheets, I didn't touch them, even though my boss said that they have some kind of ...
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Giving application window active focus when opening a file
In the documentation for QWidget::activateWindow() function, the following is said:
... On Windows, if you are calling this when the application is not
currently the active one then it will not make ...
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LNK2019 unresolved external symbol in function defined in static library
I am trying to compile a driver through the use of cl.exe on Windows 10. It is written in pure C. I am using the Enterprise Windows Driver Kit to provide source files and compiling for X86. I ...
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Pushing a branch from a local repo to a separate clone of the same remote repo on the same Windows machine
I have a Git repository, let's call it Foo, which I have cloned twice on the same Windows machine. Let's call the two local repositories Foo1 (in C:\repos\Foo1) and Foo2 (in C:\repos\Foo2).
Now the ...
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Yarn PM not working in Windows when the User folder(UserProfile env var) has space in folder name or path
As stated in title, the Yarn PM(package manager), that I just installed in my system(Windows 11 64Bit) doesn't work if there's space(s) in my UserProfile folder path.
My User folder name is "...
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the procedure entry point hb_ot_tags_from_script_and_language could not be located in the dynamic link library ...libfreetype-6.dll
I'm developing an application on windows that manipulates images.
I'm using msys2/ucrt64 version of gcc for compiling and msys2/ucrt64 version of openimageio library for image import/export.
My code ...
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How to securely store and retrieve sensitive data in a .NET Standard 2.0 cross-platform (Windows+Linux) library
I have .NET Framework 4.7.2 library to store and retrieve sensitive data (like tokens for our desktop apps communication) with help of CredentialManagement package on Windows. Now I need to make this ...
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In windows 10 dark mode, windows file explorer's status bas stays white
In windows 10 dark mode, windows file explorer's status bas stays white, the font however switches to white from black, so it becomes close to invisible. Check the screenshot below.
I had tried ...
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Failed to update help in windows powershell
I am an absolute beginner to Command Line Interface and noticed this when trying to update the help (I'm following Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous, which I suppose is for Linux and I am ...
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Long path aware manifest opt in on older versions of Windows
I have a c++ program for which i created manifest file and set long path aware to true. On newer versions of windows it works as expected.
But what will happen if i launch my app on older versions of ...
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Can I copy paste Python 2.7 packages from lib/site-packages from Windows to Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I am moving to Ubuntu 22.04 from Windows 10 and I was wondering if I could skip installing again all the packages I did on my Windows 10 machine on Python 2.7. Is it possible to save the package ...
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Do python apps uploaded to microsoft app store need to be licensed before uploading the MSIX or .exe file?
I have just finished working on the desktop app that I want to start selling on Microsoft app store. I am not sure on the licensing part. I want to implement a solution where when one downloads the ...
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Window does not receive focus even when brought to the top
I’m working on a program that uses low-level keyboard hooks (LowLevelKeyboardProc) to detect key combinations and switch focus between windows of specific processes. The goal is for the program to ...
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How can I make a python window allow itself to be recorded, when part of it is off-screen?
In windows 10, most application windows can be recorded using a program like OBS.
When the window is dragged such that part of it is not visible on the display, typically, OBS will still receive the ...
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"The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" surfaces in a complex Go app, but identical code runs in simple Go app [closed]
In a large Go application, I have this code snippet:
fName = filepath.Join(DestPath, fName)
log.Println(fName)
f, err := os.Create(fName)
defer f.Close()
if err != nil {
log.Println(err.Error())
}
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Auto-generated manifest.h does not include ProviderGuid value
I am attempting to compile an instrumentation manifest in order to build a manifest-based Windows Event Log provider. I expect the compiled manifest.h file to include a ProviderGuid symbol, as the ...
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Is there any command that changes user privileges in cmd? [closed]
I want to change my normal user privilege to that of an administrative user using a command in Windows Command Prompt.
Is there a command like the Linux sudo command?
I found ways to open a Command ...
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How to know file address when I open it with a .exe file converted from .py file?
I have a .exe file(converted from .py file) and .teui file.
When I click .teui file and choose open with .exe file, then I want .exe file return address of .teui file.
(select and right-click file -&...
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CSS display different in IOS and Android, Windows [closed]
When I preview my website in mobile screen size with Chrome, my laptop and Android display the same but in IOS is not, despite I use the same browser Chrome. CSS isn't applied with IOS, is it ?
How ...
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After moving a file to another location, and then creating a file with the same name in the original location, the creation time is incorrect
My code:
//Move the file to another location
File.Move(@"D:\Test.log", @"D:\LogHistory\" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmssfff") + ".log");
//Create the ...
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Python C++ extension DLL is not imported in python interpreter
I have written a Python extension in C/C++ to wrap my code for Python.
I followed CPython documentation in the parts of C/C++ functions each module should provide
For example, my module contains:
/* ...
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RVA of exported function is different after load
I opened crypt32.dll and looked at its export table using CFF explorer.
CFF Explorer
I then manually loaded the dll using LoadLibrary and noticed inconsistency between the functionRVA in CFF explorer ...
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Azure: Open - File Warning pops up when App is started from Remote Desktop but not from the Desktop itself
In our Azure Cloud we have 2 Applications Groups:
Desktop
Apps
The second App from the Apps Application Group is on a File Share in Azure.
We start the App in an Azure VM (Windows 11) trough a ...
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I am getting an "Internal error: Aborted (program collect2)" when compiling the lex code in Windows, what can I do to solve it? [closed]
I was recently introduced with the compiler design course in our college, so I started working with lex and yacc files. But in the way I am struck at a point where I am not able to find the solution.
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Flutter Windows Installing Application Error the application was unable to start correctly 0xc00007b
when i am trying to install the flutter windows application to Windows 10 its give me error (the application was unable to start correctly 0xc00007b)
i am trying to install flutter window application ...
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Disabling write protection on Windows
I've been learning win internals and I came across an interesting thing called Write Protection.
I know Windows relies on interrupts but I don't know any other way to do this.
I decided to try it ...
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program C# application winForm and wpf on windows embedded
My company considers working on a windows embedded operating system. i already have applications developed in winform wpf, is it possible to execute theme in windows embedded operating system?
If not ...
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What are the drawbacks of concating long video files to one big file? [closed]
My GoPro splits files at 17:43 minutes. Is there a drawback to concating them together on a NTFS drive with Windows 10 64bit, even if the filesize then adds up to 20GB?
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How to install prerequisite during installation
I have already created an installer for my application using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Installer Project. The installer installs my application and automatically launches the setup for any ...
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Positioning many child windows
So, im having an app, where i have to create lots of windows and this windows i use to render in them, so i have to create another window that acts like an overlay. Here is what im doing to set them ...
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Automatically upload OneDrive files on log off/reboot
I am trying to set up automatic uploading of downloaded files to a user's OneDrive directory, at logout. When running my script at logout the OneDrive processes are already completed, I edit the ...
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Block all internet traffic except specific pages [closed]
I'm trying to block all internet traffic except a few specific pages (and/or IPs). I tried to make it work with windows' hosts file but couldn't make it work.
I know I can block certain webpages using
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When we setup new docker in windows 10 then showing this error how we can fix this? [closed]
Here I am using first time docker and now I installed in my system where I am using OS windows 10 and also I did configuration like "wsl --shutdown" but issue still occur how I can fix this.
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Problem of running Carrom pool on windows [closed]
How can we use android games like Carrom pool on windows? I want the solution of my problem. Sometimes it hangs and sometimes it restarts. Which app should we use rather to play carrom.
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How to address Microsoft Defender warnings in IntelliJ?
I am using IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1.4 (Ultimate Edition) on Windows. Whenever I open a new project in IntelliJ, I get a popup warning like this:
The IDE has detected Microsoft Defender with Real-Time ...
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VS2022 Can't set File or Assembly Version in DLL
In this previous question of mine, I thought I had worked out setting version information in a VS2022 C# project. But I seem to have run into the issue again and can't figure it out. The main ...
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Apache Superset Google BigQuery extended image error
I want to install Google Big Query Database Driver into my Superset configuration.
I use official documentation
I tried using this tip but it did not work.
Steps I do:
git clone https://github.com/...
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Why is Ctrl-Alt-e the same as AltGr-e, sending the euro character (€), on Windows 11 Norwegian input? [closed]
On Windows, when Norwegian language input is enabled, the Ctrl-Alt-e is interpreted as € (same as AltGr-e)
How can I prevent that, cause I want to use Ctrl-Alt-e in the terminal?
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Tools to implement IAM type access control on vanilla flavoured kubeadm [closed]
I'd like to know if there are tools to implement an IAM user access control list type feature for my users that will use a windows bastion to execute cmd to a kubeadm cluster.
TLDR : Map windows user ...
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Python Package lxml cant be installed on windows without internet
I am currently facing the problem that I would like to install the "lxml" library offline on a Windows computer. With an internet connection, it can be done using the command:
py -m pip ...
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Patching windows compatibility settings to an .exe directly or through binary DLL, without the .SDB database?
In the windows compatibility administrator I have the following behaviors added from a database:
Is it possible to apply these windows compatibility patches directly to a .exe, or even by loading a ....
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DataNucleus Enhancer: 'The Command Line is Too Long' Error on Windows
I am working on a project using DataNucleus and encountering an issue when running the command mvn datanucleus:enhance on Windows. The command works fine on Linux and Mac, but on Windows, I get the ...
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How to access scanner to scan document and save as a pdf using python
I am trying to build an application that can scan and print documents in windows using tkinter. I am able to print the documents using win32api and win32print
Now I want to scan the documents but ...
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Android. Gradle. Conflict of native SO libraries names on Windows
I have a huge odl Android project and now we need to update a version of some old legacy library.
We are trying to keep 2 version of the same library. Now they are totally different inside. There are ...
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