Prior to XP Professional x64 Edition, logic was that special characters such as: `&,<>,()@^` were forbidden in quotes. Quotes must be stripped if any of these characters appear in a parameter. This logic is documented in the cmd.exe documentation at MSDN. However, after XP Professional x64 Edition, Microsoft added the `Program Files (x86)` directory, and it seems like they removed parentheses from the list of forbidden characters in quotes. The documentation doesn't mention it. I have checked that XP Professional SP 2 x32 bit strips quotes when it finds parentheses in a parameter passed with /C, and XP Professional x64 Edition and all versions after it, whether 32 or 64 bit, preserve quotation marks when parentheses are in a parameter. Also, I checked that XP Professional x64 Edition is based already on NT 5.2, same with Windows Server 2003. Wine-Bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37789 -- v7: cmd: Remove parentheses from list of illegal characters for quote strip https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10797