Windows is a family of client, server, and mobile operating systems, developed by Microsoft. If your question has nothing to do with Windows APIs or Windows-specific behaviour then do not use this tag, even if you are running on Windows.
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Developing for Multiple Platforms
I have a partially developed Java game which runs fine on my Windows PC. I want to maintain the PC version, but also start porting it to Android. For the mostpart, the classes handling the ...
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Windows Performance Monitor: Change the IO read rate
I am trying to measure the IO read rate and am using Windows Performance Monitor to measure the IO read rate for a particular process. The read rate is being specified in Bytes/sec. Is there a way to ...
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Can I Install Windows 7 with same licence on 2nd machine temporarily? [closed]
I think I probably can do this if it's all down to 'activation' not the licence itself but I'd like to know if anyone knows for sure?
Basically my Thinkpad came with Windows 7 Pro, the licence ...
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Windows 7 Deleting Drive Letter On Boot [migrated]
Wonder if anyone can help me please. I've got a Windows 7 build with an extra partition in which I'm storing a VHD the drive letter has been set to "U" using diskpart. However everytime I boot into ...
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Using windows API in DLL
I have written a class for easy sound synthesis in C++. This class (let's name it foo) uses the waveOut API. I import winmm.lib and windows.h for the waveOut API to work.
Now I want to export my ...
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gettext with python in windows, what I'm doing wrong?
I'm going slightly mad trying to set language support in a python app in Windows. I got a small cgi script that works well under a little local CGIHTTPServer.
So, I import gettext. Knowing that ...
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Git: Failed to erase credential: Element not found
I'm trying to set up Git on a fresh machine, and I'm having trouble authenticating with my remote repository.
I have limited experience with Git, but I have successfully done the following before:
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Using _pipe in a non child interprocess communications
I was wondering, is it possible to use named '_pipe's in creating interprocess communications between two processes where there is no parent/child relationship?
In other words if I have two ...
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Write Python classes that have different behavior for Mac and Windows
I want to be able to instantiate an object whose methods will behave differently depending on the platform.
import sys
class MyClass(object):
@property
def os_is_darwin(self):
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Windows insists associating .py files with the wrong version of Python [migrated]
I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.3 installed on my machine (I'm on Windows 8).
I would like .py files to be opened with Python 3.3 by default. The only Python path in the PATH environment variable ...
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How to Call a Web Service in C#
I searched many examples of how to consume webservices methods with C#,
but all of them say to right click and add a service reference and type the address.
However I dont know why, but the ...
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Access a memcached pool from Linux and Windows
I'm using memcached as a PHP extension on Windows and Linux. This is a barebones install on both machines. Linux is CentOS 6.3 with PHP 5.3.15, Windows is Windows 7 with PHP 5.3.25.
The pool gets set ...
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Showing Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) warning consistently
During the installation/uninstall of our SW package (app/driver) on a Windows 8 system, I get the Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) warning "Did this program work correctly?"
There are 2 choices:
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Detect Amazon VM (Windows)
Is there any way to programmatically detect that my C/C++ Windows application is running on an Amazon Cloud server? E.g., any APIs, WScripts, or environment variables? Thanks.
amazon
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Java System.properties for windows 8 get logged in user
So I'm using the java System.getProperties("user.home"). Here's the problem I am encountering, I'm calling it in an installation process which required admin rights, and during the installation ...
