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Questions involving programming on Microsoft Windows technology, including its API.

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Why don't developers make installation automatic on windows?

This is the inverse to "Why don't developers make installation wizards on linux?", which is interesting, but made me think "Automatic installation is the natural way. Why do they use wizards?". So here is the inverse question: I'm sure it's not…
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Windows programming - should you leave UAC on?

What is the recommended User Account Control (UAC) setting when developing on Windows? Even on Win7 I find it annoying enough to turn it off (because it makes me more productive with it off) but sometimes I feel bad because I know I'll find more…
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Grateful for opinions on Language and Framework for my Windows Application

I have read some related questions on this site, including: What language should I seek to learn if I would like to develop for Windows and How to start programming in Windows but feel that my situation is slightly different and I have a few other…
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Programmers clipboard monitor under Windows

In the process of adapting a "put on clipboard"-solution to new behavior I have found that I need a good programmers clipboard monitor for Windows. I do not need to have a history of items on the clipboard, but I need to see the details of what is…
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Windows Failover Clustering from a Programmer's perspective

I have a number of custom 'server' applications that run on Windows, and I want a way of improving their 'availability' without significantly recoding any client-side (or, ideally, server-side) code. My understanding is that Windows Failover…
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How does TranslateMessage help main window of launched process come to foreground?

This question on StackOverflow presents a minimal Win32 program written in C which launches some processes (Notepad and Calc) using CreateProcess. The OP's issue is that the windows of these programs appear in the background, behind the Explorer…
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Namespace Extension for Dropbox-like Windows application

I'm interested (for learning purposes) in creating an Namespace Extension for Windows that is similar to Dropbox or SkyDrive. What I'd like to do is integrate directly with Windows Explorer like those services that appear as a "connected…
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How to know if an app is launched in windows service application

I'm trying to write a program which waits for a specific app (matlab in my case) to launch and does stuff when the app launches. I see that I had to write a windows service application and managed get this working. I can see the service in Service…
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