Questions tagged [windows]
Tag to mark questions that are specific to Windows platforms. This includes questions about the windows file system, installation issues, COM interfacing, running external programs etc.
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Upgrade to Windows 10
Can users of Mathematica on Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 upgrade their computers to Windows 10 – a process that began today? Does Mathematica work? Are all the settings, licenses, access to files and ...
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Mathematica 10 'Formatting Notebook Contents'
Mathematica 10 freezes while 'Formatting notebook contents'. This happens already during the startup of Mathematica and it takes a long time for Mathematica to recover. It can also happen when I am ...
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How do I get Mathematica to recognize a C compiler on a 64-bit Windows machine?
Mathematica does not recognize any C compiler on my computer. I run Mathematica 8.0.4.0 on Windows 7. I've tried to make sure various C compilers are installed on my computer, but I'm not sure how to ...
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Calling external commands without showing command prompt on windows
I'm playing around with some code that's calling external command-line commands on a windows platform, and when doing this, the command prompt will pop up quickly and then disappear. This is not a ...
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Blurred frontend text in Mathematica 10, Windows, High-DPI Display
So I have recently upgraded to a Windows ultrabook with a high resolution display. All my software seems to cope just fine with the high resolution, except for Mathematica 10.
Mathematica seems to ...
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Web Browser Screen Shot
I have Safari, Opera, Chrome, Firefox and IE installed how might a get a browser screen shot of a set of HTML code from inside Mathematica(for any of those browsers)?
(Image is optional)
The shortest/...
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Clipboard with transparency
After reading this question I have determined that
Rasterize[Graphics[Circle[]], "Image", Background -> None]
allows you to do ...
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Implementing Local HTTP Server
How might I implement a local HTTP server using either Java, C#, C or purely Mathematica?
It should be able to respond with Mathematica input to GET and POST requests ideally on W7.
This is related ...
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How can I deploy DLL files created by a Fortran function and call them from Mathematica
This is my Fortran function, established by Intel visual Fortran 11.1
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Incorrect Timing of Total
For demonstrating how fast C-compiled functions can be, in one of my courses I use the following function for finding the sum of a list of reals:
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Path Names Longer Than 256 on Windows
Is there a way to work with pathnames that are longer than the typical 256 in Mathematica?
For example run the following in Cygwin
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Transfer graphics from Mathematica to Word without loss of quality
I want some high-quality 2D graphics produced by Mathematica in my paper.
My step-by-step operation as follows:
First I make the plot, for example,
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How can I change the keyboard shortcut for switching the active window?
The default keyboard shortcut (on Windows at least) for switching focus to the next window is Ctrl+F6, and for switching to the previous windows it's Shift+Ctrl+F6. How can I change this to Ctrl+Tab ...
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Calling Mathematica from Visual Studio - example
I am trying to set up a connection between Visual Studio 10 and Mathematica 8.0 on a Windows system. I found several sources of information on the Wolfram website, but I get entirely lost. Most of the ...
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Color degrades when using Copy As Bitmap
I have discovered a problem that affects my use of Mathematica. When I use the menu command Edit > Copy As > Bitmap the colors in the copy are subtly degraded. To make this more apparent I copied ...
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