So, the long story short - I downgraded to Windows 8.1 because of many years struggling with Windows 10 (ended in black screen, not relevant right now) anyway, I started a fresh install of 8.1 yesterday and I'm trying to get my local server going again with Ampps (preferred) or Xampp but having a lot of trouble getting the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64) 14.29.30133" to install, both programs need this to connect properly. I have done all the updates I can and other suggestions (old) that I've found over the web with no luck. The install either hangs about halfway or I get an error. I tried the newest version with the same result.
Am I wasting my time or is this still achievable in 2022 on Windows 8.1? I really hope the answer isn't going back to the dreaded Windows 10.
Cheers.
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I have Windows 7, and need to migrate to Windows 10 because I must install Visual Studio (which doesn't work on Win7 anymore). As I read, Windows 10 online update does not delete any of my files or programs.
What would happen to my Android Studio, will it work same as before, after update is preformed?
UPDATE: Windows 10 could not detect my second monitor, everything else is doing fine for now. I found this helpful for second monitor solution. Just updating nvidia and reboot did the job.
I didn't have to reinstall the software when I upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10. It worked just fine for me.
According to the site below, if you’re running Windows 7, you can preserve Windows settings, personal files, and most apps during the upgrade to Windows 10.
http://www.intowindows.com/you-can-upgrade-to-windows-10-preview-without-losing-installed-programs/
Recently, I needed to refresh my Windows 8.1 PC, and now that I have finally finished getting all of my programs reinstalled and everything is back to normal, I am ready to finish work on my Windows 8.1 app, but I am having an issue with compiling my apps. Every time I try to compile, I get the following error.
Now normally when I need to refresh my developer licesnse, Visual Studio tells me, but this time I didn't get any prompt at all, and that is the error that I got when trying to compile. How can I fix this? I am installing updates for Visual STudio at the moment, and I am hoping that doing so will somehow magically fix the problem, but I am also aware that it probably won't.
EDIT: Now that I have updated, the message has been shortened to "Can't resolve Windows.metadata."
For some reason, even though the Windows 8.1 SDK is supposed to be installed with Visual Studio Ultimate 2013, it wasn't for me. I was able to find the Windows 8.1 SDK by Googling it, and it came up as the top result. I installed it, and suddenly all of my errors went away and Visual Studio started recognizing them as legitimate Windows 8.1 app code.
I have a windows 8 pc, I recently installed windows phone 7.1 sdk but it continously gave me the error that it couldn't install XNA 4.0 Refresh and MS VS 2010 Extensions for XNA. When I make a project of windows phone and run it it gives me this error:
Error 1 The target "GetCopyToOutputDirectoryContentProjectItems" does not exist in the project. PhoneApp2
Any suggestions/solutions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks :)
If you are running visual studio 2010 on Windows 8, then following the steps here should work:
http://www.demonixis.net/blog/installer-xna-4-0-sous-windows-8/
If possible you might want to uninstall what you have for xna and the windows phone sdk so far. (I'm not sure if it would work properly without doing so.)
Basically, it has three steps:
1)Go to xbox.com/en-US/LIVE/PC/DownloadClient
Start by pressing the download button on this page. I am not sure what the significance of downloading that client is, however, it did the trick when I installed it.
2)Then reinstalling xna on this page:
microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23714
3)And this last step is to download Windows SDK 7.1 here:
microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27570
I am developing an application for Windows Phone in Visual studio 2010 ultimate using wp7.1 SDK in Windows 7 32 bit and 3GB RAM. My system often gets stuck and then restarts sometimes when I run the application on wp7 Emulator (2 or 3 times an hour). Before restart it displays the message: "Display driver stopped responding and recovered" and leads to a blue screen displaying "some lines with Contact system admin".
I am not sure why, will need more details. Try installing the 7.1.1 update for the SDK, it is meant for low profile devices, but I am just hoping this will resolve your issues too.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29233
Had the same problem. Just start your sdk installer. There will be a option of repair of deleat. I repaired my sdk first but it still did not work. I then deleted my sdk and reinstalled it. Worked like a charm.
But you must you know that I was not able to delete my sdk too. My antivirus was doing something wrong and stopping the uninstall of my sdk. So I had to delete my antivirus... than my sdk. Than reinstall the sdk, reinstall the antivirus.
It all worked great after.
I am getting the following error when trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on my 64bit, Vista computer:
"1305.Error reading from file
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Visual Studio 8\Microsoft Visual
Studio 2005 Standard Edition -
ENU\SITSetup.dll"
I have successfully used the same DVD's to install Visual Studio on my old XP machine, and I can find the file (SITSetup.dll) on the DVD...and copy it off...so I don't think this is a case of having a bad DVD. At the time the error message pops up, I can see the file on my hard-drive, but it has a 0 size.
I've Googled this problem, and found some ideas, but nothing has worked thus far. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I have to confess on this..especially since someone voted for the question.
Everything I said in my original posting about using the disks successfully in the past -was true. However, after innumerable shots at trying to get this install to work, I finally went back and looked at the DVD, and found that either myself, or one of my kids, left traces of food stuck to the underside of the DVD. After cleaning the DVD off, the install worked fine. This is embarrassing.
I assumed the DVD was fine because I had used it before, as well as being able to copy files off it. However, the last time I used it was years ago, and sometime in between then and now...something got on it. I guess the lesson here is never skip the basic checks!
I just installed it yesterday on my Vista box (32-bit, which may be the problem). It seemed to go through fine so I don't know what to tell you other than than when I first launched the app it notified me of "known compatibility issues" and recommended that I install both the SP1 and Vista SP! updates. No further issues past that.
As such, I would suspect either a problem with the 64 bit OS (though Microsoft says it's fine...) or other software on your machine. If you have a virus scanner running, for instance, disable it while installing.
If your Vista machine is a guest running under VMware, try copying the entire DVD to your hard drive and install from there.
I don't know if the same random glitches occur on real machines.
I can confirm that this is a problem for me on Windows 2008 Server while not on XP or Vista (all 32-bit). Not sure why there's any kind of issue here but it seems to be permissions related.
Also tried run as administrator etc but no luck.