Quoting a comment I made for bug# 722:
This is troublesome. I can fix this problem by reenabling these things in dlls/version/info.c:
/* Temporary workaround a broken behaviour of the 16-bit loader */ len = 0; /* VERSION_GetFileVersionInfo_16(filename, handle, 0, NULL); */
/* Temporary workaround a broken behaviour of the 16-bit loader */ len = 0; /* VERSION_GetFileVersionInfo_16(filename, &handle, datasize, data); */
Doing so, however, is said to break installation of Office 2000. I don't have Office 2000, so it's quite impossible for me to know what's wrong. I would like to hear from anyone having it, and who is willing to try installation of it with those calls reenabled.