New subject: [Bug 59524] Apps running with Win10 or Win11 compatibility detect Win8.1

March 14, 2026

      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59524

            Bug ID: 59524
           Summary: Apps running with Win10 or Win11 compatibility detect
                    Win8.1
           Product: Wine
           Version: 11.4
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs@list.winehq.org
          Reporter: winehq-bugs@brocky.net
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 80550
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=80550
Patch to add Win10 compatibility to msiexec.manifest that doesn't seem to work

I'm dealing with a suite of applications that only work on Windows 10 or 11 (as
a software-defined block from what I can tell), but when I run them, they
detect the version as Windows 8.1 (6.2) and abort, even when running with the
Windows Version set to Windows 11 both as the default, and specifically for the
.exe I try to run.

I was even unable to install the app because msiexec.exe had the same issue,
where the installer would check the `Environment.OSVersion.Version` (C#, which
calls `GetVersionEx` under the hood) and abort because it got 6.2 instead of
10.0.

There seems to be several parts to this problem:
1. The application I'm trying to run has the
MajorOperatingSystemVersion.MinorOperatingSystemVersion in the OptionalHeader
set to 6.0, and the manifest doesn't declare a `supportedOS`, so Wine seems to
be thinking it needs to limit the compatibility level to Win8.1. I'm not really
sure what's standard or normal, but I checked a few other programs I have (only
in a hex editor, not in Wine) that also require Windows 10, and none of them
seem to fit that criteria. They all have versions less than 10 in their EXE
headers and nothing in the manifest saying otherwise either.
2. Even if I try to force the compatibility level for the specific EXEs in
winecfg to be Win10 or Win11, that setting is ignored. This is because the
compatibility that has been selected is done in RtlGetVersion(), but then the
init_current_version() that is used for GetVersionEx (in init_current_version)
applies the backwards-compatibility logic afterwards, essentially ignoring the
configuration.
3. msiexec has the same problem as point 1, but has the
MajorOperatingSystemVersion.MinorOperatingSystemVersion set to 4.0 and also
doesn't declare a supportedOS in the manifest. Presumably, any installer that
checks the OS version would fail if it requires Win10 or later, even if the
programs it installs do set the image headers or manifest correctly.

I tried adding the below to msiexec.manifest (also attached as a patch), but it
didn't seem to help with the installer detecting the desired 10.0 version. From
what I can understand of the code in init_current_version
(dlls\kernelbase\version.c), this should have worked, but didn't. Not sure if I
messed something up or I misunderstood how to declare this.
    <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
    <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
        <!-- ... existing manifest ... -->
        <application>
            <!-- Windows 10 -->
            <supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}" />
        </application>
    </compatibility>
    </assembly>

The only way I was able to get my program to install and run was to delete the
final `if` statement that updates the `current_version` to the downgraded
`ver`, effectively disabling the entire compatibility stuff. After that, the
programs seem to install and run just fine.

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