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May 09 2009

Windows 7 Upgrade may have a negative impact on Delphi 7

Posted by Olaf Monien in Miscellaneous, tags: Delphi, Embarcadero

I 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:

[…]

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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André

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

Andrei

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 :)