Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

Download this set of updates for Windows Embedded Compact 7 released during the period of August 1 - 31, 2014.

• This is a set of updates for Windows Embedded Compact 7 released during the period of August 1 - 31, 2014. These updates are fixes for problems you may run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform. To qualify for consideration for an update, a problem needs to cause an excessive amount of work and not have a reasonable workaround.
  
  For complete details regarding the updates in this release, please download the HTM file.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
Windows Embedded Compact 7_M08_2014.htm SHA1: 8acdbd5896b8628cb0e4162451e700d63bd02514	21 KB
WindowsEmbeddedCompact7.exe SHA1: 62ca3aeea8a6ebdd62319d3277f95b808c5dcb9f	2.99 MB

• Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 3
  
  Your computer must have the following software installed:
  • Windows Embedded Compact 7 or Windows Embedded Compact 7 Evaluation Edition
  • Visual Studio® 2008 Professional or Team Edition (including the Smart Device Programmability for Visual C++)
  • Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
  To develop with Windows® Embedded Compact 7, your computer should meet the following hardware requirements:
  • Approximately 100 GB of free hard disk space
  • 2.4 GHz or higher CPU, 1024 MB or more RAM, 1280x1024 display, 7200 RPM or higher hard disk

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  1. Click the file you want to download.
  2. Do one of the following:
  • To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location.
  • To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.