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Not able find window handle on Windows 11
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John Emmatty
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My application adds an icon in the Saveas and Open dialog box(next search box) of mspaint and notepad using windows hooks. This was working fine in all the machines prior to windows 11. Now, when the system is upgraded to Windows 11 the icon fails to apply. I found out that if I install Visual C++(v143) latest compilers and libraries for x64/x86 in windows which comes with the visual studio installation, the icon is getting added without any issue, but in the customer machines we cannot ask them to visual studio. Can you please tell me whether installing any redistributables will solve this issue.
I tried the latest redistributable from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170 , but it is not helping.
Developer technologies | C++
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David Lowndes 4,726 Reputation points2023-03-01T10:23:17.9+00:00 You need to understand precisely why your application isn't working in those scenarios. Presumably you have a dependency on some component that isn't present in those scenarios. Maybe your application installer should have installed them. The Dependencies tool may help you identify what's missing.
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points2023-03-01T10:26:52.03+00:00 Maybe the code can be adjusted for Window 11.
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John Emmatty 0 Reputation points
2023-03-01T10:52:27.1533333+00:00 @David Lowndes I checked the dependencies using dependency walker. No dependencies were missing and application is not showing rung time errors.
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David Lowndes 4,726 Reputation points
2023-03-01T11:43:24.5233333+00:00 All I can suggest is to debug it - use the remote debugger so you don't have to install VS on the problem machine.
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YujianYao-MSFT 4,296 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2023-03-02T07:12:32.5366667+00:00 Hi John Emmatty,
You could download build tools separately in this link, this will not install visual studio but this will install visual studio installer. In addition, this link uses a script to install build tools, you could refer to it too.
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