[Bug 55012] New: Settings sometimes opens on Windows Update page, breaks quartz:videorenderer, quartz:vmr7, quartz:vmr9

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55012

Bug ID: 55012
           Summary: Settings sometimes opens on Windows Update page,
                    breaks quartz:videorenderer, quartz:vmr7, quartz:vmr9
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

Settings sometimes opens on Windows Update page, breaks quartz:videorenderer,
quartz:vmr7, quartz:vmr9:

videorenderer.c:1863: Test failed: Got active window 00290408.
...
videorenderer.c:1905: Test failed: Got focus window 01540402.
videorenderer.c:1906: Test failed: Got foreground window 00580356.
...
vmr7.c:1865: Test failed: Got active window 006E03A2.
...
vmr7.c:1907: Test failed: Got focus window 002C0408.
vmr7.c:1908: Test failed: Got foreground window 00580356.
...
vmr9.c:2089: Test failed: Got active window 00510428.
...
vmr9.c:2131: Test failed: Got focus window 007103A2.
vmr9.c:2132: Test failed: Got foreground window 00580356.
...

See https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#quartz:videorenderer
    https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#quartz:vmr7
    https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#quartz:vmr9

Note that this is not an issue with Windows Update not being disabled: when
Windows update triggers it does not pop up this Settings dialog. Instead it
does its job in the background. Even if Windows wanted to notify the user that
updates are needed it would use a notification for that, not open this Settings
dialog.

So some Wine test causes this Settings dialog to open but it's not clear which
one. In the past 8 months the telltale failures have happened on the following
dates but not all 3 tests failed:

* 2022-10-21 fgtb-w10pro64-64       videorenderer vmr7 vmr9
* 2022-10-24 w11pro64-amd-64        videorenderer vmr7
* 2022-10-25 w11pro64-amd-64        videorenderer vmr7
* 2022-10-26 w11pro64-amd-64        videorenderer vmr7
* 2022-10-31 w11pro64-amd-64/       videorenderer vmr7
* 2022-11-01 11pro64-amd-64         videorenderer vmr7
* 2022-12-09 fgtb-w10pro64-rx550-64 videorenderer
* 2023-05-05 fgtb-w10pro64-rx550-64 videorenderer
* 2023-05-30 w10pro64v2004-32       videorenderer vmr7 vmr9
* 2023-06-05 w10pro64v2004-32       videorenderer vmr7 vmr9

The presence of the Settings dialog was confirmed in the final screenshot of
the last two instances. I also confirmed that the dialog is only present in
those two w10pro64v2004 test results in the 2023-05-09..2023-06-07 interval.
Unfortunately the screenshots for earlier WineTest runs are not available
anymore.