[Bug 58146] New: HWiNFO 8.24 (latest): doesn't work unless winecfg is set to Windows 7

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Bug ID: 58146 Summary: HWiNFO 8.24 (latest): doesn't work unless winecfg is set to Windows 7 Product: Wine Version: 10.6 Hardware: x86-64 OS: MacOS Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: cemer99797@isorax.com

Created attachment 78427 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78427 Wine-devel 10.6 log using default Windows 10 in winecfg

HWiNFO 8.24 (latest version, compatible with Windows 10) doesn't work unless winecfg is set to Windows 7 (instead of the default Windows 10). The intro window will load, but after clicking "Start" the app will crash.

The progess bar stops at this stage:

Examining system configuration... Initializing Kernel Driver...

With this error message:

Error Cannot install the HWiNFO driver ! It might be blocked by the system other applications.

download link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hwinfo/files/Windows_Portable/hwi_824.zip/d... sha256: 74c71b6a8a3498f5a5254b4e692345c45ec5cf88246bf3516cd7c35faf516ca4

I'm using Gcenx's wine-devel 10.6 build (https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases/tag/10.6) on macOS 11

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--- Comment #1 from ToastyBug cemer99797@isorax.com --- Created attachment 78428 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78428 Wine-devel 10.6 log using Windows 7 in winecfg

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ToastyBug cemer99797@isorax.com changed:

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--- Comment #2 from ToastyBug cemer99797@isorax.com --- Created attachment 78429 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78429 Error pop-up window using default Windows 10 in winecfg

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23 Apr 23 Apr

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New subject: [Bug 58146] HWiNFO 8.24 (latest): doesn't work unless winecfg is set to Windows 7

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Louis Lenders xerox.xerox2000x@gmail.com changed:

--- Comment #3 from Louis Lenders xerox.xerox2000x@gmail.com --- I tried this yesterday and confirming.

It looks as if it is a regression as it starts for me in wine-9.0 but errors out in wine-10.0. @OP: Any chance you could do a regression test?

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24 Apr 24 Apr

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New subject: [Bug 58146] HWiNFO 8.24 (latest): doesn't work unless winecfg is set to Windows 7

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--- Comment #4 from ToastyBug cemer99797@isorax.com --- If by regression test you mean using git and compiling from source then no, that wiki page (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Regression-Testing) is also only applicable to Linux and I'm only comfortable using Gcenx's pre-build macOS binaries.

I did also test it with Gcenx's Wine CrossOverFOSS 23.7.1-1 based on Wine 8.0.1 (https://github.com/Gcenx/winecx/releases/tag/crossover-wine-23.7.1-1) and there is the same issue (and it also works when winecfg is set to Windows 7)

Same issue (and winecfg Win7 workaround) with all these Gcenx Wine build: (https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases)

wine-stable 10.0 wine-stable 10.0_1 (22 Apr 2025 release) wine-staging 10.6

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--- Comment #5 from ToastyBug cemer99797@isorax.com --- same issue with Gcenx's wine-devel 9.21 (https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases/tag/9.21)

see also this AppDB report (using Linux Mint 21.2 with Wine 8.0.2) saying GUI only works in Windows 7 mode: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=41739

and this AppDB report saying the same for Linux Mint 21.3 with Wine 9.0: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=41930

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--- Comment #6 from ToastyBug cemer99797@isorax.com --- (In reply to Louis Lenders from comment #3)

...

I tried this yesterday and confirming.

It looks as if it is a regression as it starts for me in wine-9.0 but errors out in wine-10.0. @OP: Any chance you could do a regression test?

Which version of Wine 9 are you using? Apparently this has been an issue since at least Wine 8

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29 Apr 29 Apr

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Alex Henrie alexhenrie24@gmail.com changed:

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12:49 p.m.

New subject: [Bug 58146] HWiNFO 8.24 (latest): doesn't work unless winecfg is set to Windows 7

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Bernhard Übelacker bernhardu@mailbox.org changed:

What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bernhardu@mailbox.org

--- Comment #7 from Bernhard Übelacker bernhardu@mailbox.org --- A git bisect led me to this commit: commit 0692d07f85f30ee5191a781b8b6f51006f2ae407 ntdll: Look at CurrentMajor/MinorVersionNumber registry values before CurrentVersion. (released in wine-8.2)

Before winedevice.exe was already crashing, but HWiNFO was still showing its user interface.

So I am unsure how the current regression commit got determined.

Before 0692d07f8 HWiNFO did load a driver file "HWiNFO_x64_W7_204.sys", after this commit it loads "HWiNFO_x64_204.sys".

This newer file makes winedevice "crash" already a few instructions in DriverInit. There is a comparison with 0x2b992ddfa232 which seems related to "Buffer Security Check" and the default value of the "security cookie". This cookie needs to be changed already at this point, if not a "int $0x29"/fastfail" gets executed.

Further searching seems to show this should probably be initialized by the loader in update_load_config. But this does not happen because the offset in the LoadConfig directory shows a value as if the image was not relocated.

I tried to attach a file with more details, and a workaround to enter the relocation path for this driver file, which seems to make DriverInit to continue, and HWiNFO shows its user interface, like with wine-8.1. However also winedevice.exe crashes like with wine-8.1.

Unfortunately bugzilla shows me "Sorry, you have been blocked" How to find out what makes coudflare upset?

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--- Comment #8 from Bernhard Übelacker bernhardu@mailbox.org --- Created attachment 78545 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78545 workaround by forcing to enter relocation path

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--- Comment #9 from Bernhard Übelacker bernhardu@mailbox.org --- Created attachment 78546 --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78546 workaround_outb_inb.patch

This is not strictly needed for this bug, but after the security cookie workaround it avoids the crash in winedevice.exe about the priviledged instructions outb / inb, and makes a few more infos like a cpu frequency shown. Unfortunately I don't know what this instructions should produce, so this workaround just ignores them.

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