Windows 7 Upgrade may have a negative impact on Delphi 7
Posted by Olaf Monien in Miscellaneous, tags: Delphi, EmbarcaderoI am currently in the process of upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC. The installer just showed the following warning (roughly translated from German):
The functionality of the following programs may be affected by the upgrade. It is recommended to de-install these programs before running the upgrade:
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- Borland Delphi 7.0
Interesting that Microsoft cares about us Delphi users.
Unfortunately MS did not detect Delphi 2009 which is on this machine as well. That one still has a problem with Win7’s 64bit edition. MS changed something in the area of Threads and how a debugger can attach to them. I would have expected from such a smart installer to explain how to fix that issue 
(Seriously, that issue is logged in RAID and Nick will certainly make sure that a proper solution is developed)
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I used Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta to check if my computer is ready for win 7, I got the warning:
CodeGear Rad Studio 2009 – Minor Issues… Interesting if you click the Visit publisher website link, you will be sent to borland's web site
Ouch
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Grüße / Regards,
Olaf Monien
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Am 09.05.2009 um 16:36 schrieb “Disqus”<
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Vista gave the same warning when installing Delphi 7, after a few tweaks i was able to compile Delphi 7 Apps on vista.
The main issue in Vista was the the old help file format. Also Installing in “Program Files” could be a issue because a user cannot now write files there, but i Installed it on the root (ie: C:Delphi7) and everything worked. I guess the same can be applied to Windows 7.
Regards
Yeah !
I think that Microsoft cares about us Delphi users. , that's why they showed the warning .