When I updated to Windows 8.1 my Delphi 2007 installation broke. I could no longer open projects in the IDE and my command line compilation scripts also stopped working. It turned out that some files that were added by the installer to the dotNET framework were missing. In addition there is a known problem with Delphi 2007 on 64 bit Windows (starting with Vista).

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When I updated to Windows 8.1 my Delphi 2007 installation broke. I could no longer open projects in the IDE and my command line compilation scripts also stopped working. It turned out that some files that were added by the installer to the dotNET framework were missing. In addition there is a known problem with Delphi 2007 on 64 bit Windows (starting with Vista).
http://blog.dummzeuch.de/2013/11/10/delphi-2007-on-windows-8-1/

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  1. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)November 10, 2013 at 9:52 AM

    Just in case you are wondering:

    Delphi 2006 and 2005 don’t work either. They are missing an older version of the dotNET framework which was there in Windows 8 but vanished in the update process. Thanks Microsoft!

    Delphi 7 still works. Delphi 6 has some issue with not finding its registration information that I haven’t looked into yet.

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  2. Bill MeyerNovember 10, 2013 at 9:56 AM

    Nice. Reminds me of a similar experience with HomeSite, some years ago. It still worked, it just lost many of its most valuable features.

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  3. Warren PostmaNovember 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM

    Windows deleted the borland msbuild target files. Put them back and 2007 works fine in win 8.1.

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