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How can I change the target platform to Windows 7? All I can chose is Windows 8.1 and therefore my project does not run on Windows 7. The same project I used to compile on my old Windows 7 PC with Visual Studio 2013. And of course it worked there.
I already tried to install Windows 7 SDK but sadly this does not work since it requites Net Framework 4.0 which I can not install anymore. (Windows 10 includes 4.6?) - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/en-en/library/ff770576.aspx
Thanks.
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To enable x64 as a CPU platform targetClick Configuration Manager. In the Configuration Manager dialog, open the Active solution platform drop-down list box and click <New> …. In the New Solution Platform dialog, select x64 in the Type or select the new platform drop-down list box.
Visual Studio 2022 is supported only on 64-bit editions of Windows 10 version 1909 and higher and Windows Server 2016 and higher. We don't recommend using Visual Studio on earlier versions of Windows and Windows Server. See the full system requirements for more details.
In Visual Studio 2015 the Target Platform Version field just sets the version of the Windows SDK to use. See this MSDN article for reference. In Visual Studio 2019, this field has been renamed Windows SDK Version.
From MSDN:
Target Platform Version
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To target Windows 7 or Windows Vista, use the value 8.1, since Windows SDK 8.1 is backward compatible to those platforms. In addition, you should define the appropriate value for _WIN32_WINNT in targetver.h. For Windows 7, that's 0x0601. See Modifying WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT.
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