With all the discussions of Win10, has anyone had any luck with installing
the Win7 WDK on a Win10 system and getting the pieces into the start menu?
I did a quick try, and nothing was in the start menu, and have been off
dealing with customer challenges, so have not explored further.
I know the “answer” is move everything to the Win8 or Win8.1 WDK, but there
are plenty of customers who have working environments that they build with
the older WDK and don’t want to move. For that matter, there are enough
customers who still support XP since they must (embedded with a long
certification cycle), or are pressured to by clients. So whether Microsoft
wants it or not many of us will be looking for a way to support older WDK’s.
I’m not big on the virtual machine solution, for a number of reasons, so am
wondering is there a way to get a native environment that works for Win7 WDK
like it did on Win7?
Don Burn
Windows Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
The WDK is present in the start menu:
All Apps -> Windows Driver Kits -> WDK 7600.16385.1
Why do you care about the start menu? Just use a shell script to run the
build, or use a build system running an earlier version of windows.
Mark Roddy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Don Burn wrote:
> With all the discussions of Win10, has anyone had any luck with installing
> the Win7 WDK on a Win10 system and getting the pieces into the start menu?
> I did a quick try, and nothing was in the start menu, and have been off
> dealing with customer challenges, so have not explored further.
>
> I know the “answer” is move everything to the Win8 or Win8.1 WDK, but there
> are plenty of customers who have working environments that they build with
> the older WDK and don’t want to move. For that matter, there are enough
> customers who still support XP since they must (embedded with a long
> certification cycle), or are pressured to by clients. So whether Microsoft
> wants it or not many of us will be looking for a way to support older
> WDK’s.
>
> I’m not big on the virtual machine solution, for a number of reasons, so am
> wondering is there a way to get a native environment that works for Win7
> WDK
> like it did on Win7?
>
>
> Don Burn
> Windows Driver Consulting
> Website: http://www.windrvr.com
>
>
>
>
>
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Check in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\StartMenu to see if it’s there.
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Bruce
On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Mark Roddy wrote:
>
> Why do you care about the start menu? Just use a shell script to run the build, or use a build system running an earlier version of windows.
>
> Mark Roddy
>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Don Burn wrote:
>> With all the discussions of Win10, has anyone had any luck with installing
>> the Win7 WDK on a Win10 system and getting the pieces into the start menu?
>> I did a quick try, and nothing was in the start menu, and have been off
>> dealing with customer challenges, so have not explored further.
>>
>> I know the “answer” is move everything to the Win8 or Win8.1 WDK, but there
>> are plenty of customers who have working environments that they build with
>> the older WDK and don’t want to move. For that matter, there are enough
>> customers who still support XP since they must (embedded with a long
>> certification cycle), or are pressured to by clients. So whether Microsoft
>> wants it or not many of us will be looking for a way to support older WDK’s.
>>
>> I’m not big on the virtual machine solution, for a number of reasons, so am
>> wondering is there a way to get a native environment that works for Win7 WDK
>> like it did on Win7?
>>
>>
>> Don Burn
>> Windows Driver Consulting
>> Website: http://www.windrvr.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> —
>> NTDEV is sponsored by OSR
>>
>> Visit the list at: http://www.osronline.com/showlists.cfm?list=ntdev
>>
>> OSR is HIRING!! See http://www.osr.com/careers
>>
>> For our schedule of WDF, WDM, debugging and other seminars visit:
>> http://www.osr.com/seminars
>>
>> To unsubscribe, visit the List Server section of OSR Online at http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=ListServer
>
> — NTDEV is sponsored by OSR Visit the list at: http://www.osronline.com/showlists.cfm?list=ntdev OSR is HIRING!! See http://www.osr.com/careers For our schedule of WDF, WDM, debugging and other seminars visit: http://www.osr.com/seminars To unsubscribe, visit the List Server section of OSR Online at http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=ListServer
The entry “Windows Driver Kits” disappeared from the “All Apps” list. I added the user to the “Users” group and the entry is back.