Recompile using an older MSVC Toolset (e.g., v143 or older), which does not automatically reference this API. Solution B: Find an Older Version of the Application

Microsoft never backported this specific API to Windows 7 via a Windows Update or Service Pack. Because Windows 7 is well past its end-of-life (EOL) date, it is highly unlikely that an official update will ever materialize.

Microsoft released Platform Update and service updates that added some APIs to earlier OS versions. However, GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime was not made available on stock Windows 7 through standard Platform Update packages; it remains an API introduced in later Windows versions.

. It was introduced with Windows 8 to provide UTC-synchronized timestamps with a resolution of less than 1 microsecond.

cl /D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0601 source.c

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