windows-7

Can anyone list a set of complete steps to install OpenSSL on Windows 7? I have tried a lot of things, but invariably, one or the other library is found missing. I know that OpenSSL depends on libxml2, pthread libraries and so on. I have tried downloading them from various sources, but I am a bit frustrated by a lot of errors that are showing up one after the other. If someone has done it before, it would be great if you can help me with the list of steps. Download the latest OpenSSL source distribution (at the moment openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz ), not the FIPS module (read here ), then follow the

I have an application that gets started via a shortcut. This application than starts a Java GUI application with CreateProcess(). When the Java application gets pinned to the taskbar the javaw.exe gets pinned to the taskbar instead of the "expected" shortcut. Only the native executable which launches Java can be modified - the shortcut has to stay. What has to be done so that the shortcut gets pinned? Thanks, Stefan Use something like winrun4j or create a .bat instead of using a shortcut. There is a Java library providing the new Windows 7 features for Java. It's called J7Goodies by Strix Code

I have developed an application that needs admin rights to execute. Running the application on Windows 7, the user always have to launch the application as "Run as Administrator" otherwise my application prompts the user that "you don't have administrative rights etc...". This is OK and understandable because of UAC in windows 7. To get rid that the user have to set the application as "Run as Administrator". I updated my application's "app.manifest" and set <requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable" uiAccess="false" /> Which done the job for me. But now, a security center symbol shield

I have the Windows 7 operating system, and I have administrator user credentials stored (known in advance). I know we can run a program or .exe using "Runas" verb and launch a process, but my question is specific to explorer.exe. I am trying to run "runas /user: "control.exe printers" it launches successfully after giving a password to the prompt, but when I am checking within TaskManager it is running under my regular user with which I have logged on. I have noticed this is only with explorer.exe. Other programs are working fine as expected with runas. What is the catch here with Windows 7?

In Windows 7 theres a possibility for getting file's previous versions like in the below image: Is there any way to retrieve file's previous version by code? because I couldn't find any API. Thanks advanced! =] ryyker There are several tags listed with this question. So it is unclear if a strictly c/c++ approach is desired, or if scripting etc will work. In any case... Here are some links that will hopefully point in the right direction: On the MSDN site, there is documentation and example code referring to shadow copy API. Here is a Link to the concept of shadow copy service. Here is a

I need to write to some files in the application directory which is installed under Program Files. I know that with UAC enabled on Vista and Windows 7, users can't modify files in this directory. However, I'm aware of the UAC Virtualization that was added in Vista which basically redirects writes to the virtualstore directory . In Vista this works great and my files are actually written to this virtualstore directory. However, on Windows 7 I am getting access denied errors and my files are not written to this directory at all. What gives? Is it the exact same binary or was it re-compiled