Windows 10: Windows 10 upgrade worked - but programs believe they are on Windows 8

I upgraded to Windows 10 and everything is working as expected. No crashes and nothing, everything fine.

However, there is one thing that bothers me:

Some programs obviously believe they would be running under Windows 8. An example is the XAMPP Control Panel (newest version):

When I check the registry, the keys under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
point to Windows 10: "BuildLab" and "CurrentBuild" and so on all point to the 10240 build of Windows 10.

However, I in fact still have a reference to Windows 8.1 in there:
The key "CurrentVersion" still has the value "6.3".

Is that normal?

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I believe it was between Windows Phone running version 8 or 8.1 and Windows 8 on PC with Internet Explorer, not Edge. It has not worked since I upgraded my phone and computer to Windows 10.

I don't have the article but I believe I saw that comment in the Microsoft community.

 

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I do not believe the free upgrade to Windows 10 is offered for Windows 8. I believe you must have 8.1.

 

I believe and someone will correct me if I am wrong some windows 8.1 is still working in windows 10 so you are running windows
10

if you right click button in lower left hand corner you will see system




If you get that you are running windows 10

 

Have you upgraded as well (and not done a clean installation)?

What does the value "CurrentVersion" under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion say for you?

 

Yes I have but all I look at is what is posted and stings are better also I was getting freezes and restarts with 8.1 since upgrade have had none of that

 

Yes. A clean install (a couple of days ago for me) of Windows 10 has the same in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion





Don't worry about it.

 

Thank you I was trying to let him see how mine is set out and thought that I was right
Two heads as the saying goes are better than one

 

You aren't wrong sir (or right) , I was answering his specific question about registry values for a clean install of Windows 10. You didn't answer that so I though I would.

 

Thank you for your help guys! Much appreciated! *Smile

So, if I get this wrong information, e.g. in the XAMPP Control Panel, then it is not that my installation of Windows 10 is somehow giving the wrong value, but the control panel is somehow working incorrectly with how it retrieves the version. (And if this "6.3" should in fact not be there, then this is a problem for all Windows 10 installations, also for cleanly installed ones, and does not have its cause in the upgrade I did.)

I think I will then go ahead and bug the author of that control panel software to see, if he can fix it to detect the OS properly.

 

This is a clean install. If you think the "6.3" is a MS error then raise it with them.

A better solution is something like this:

Code: $OS = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem If(-not $OS.Caption.Contains("10")) {Read-Host -Prompt "This script only works with Windows 10. Press Enter to exit." exit }[/quote]

 

Puhh, I am not sure, if this 6.3 is an error or not. But, yeah, it looks wrong. All I can say is that some programmers obviously think they can use it to determine the OS version, which does not work that way in Windows 10. The functions GetVersion() und GetVersionEx() have been deprecated and should no longer be used. However, there also are other ways to figure the correct version. Other applications manage to do that as well - I actually think the problem is with the failing applications then.

 

Get-WmiObject works (it always returns "XP" or "7" or "8" or "10")

Looking at that specific reg key obviously gives the wrong answer ("6.3" for a clean install of 10 pro).

I think I'd go for something that gave the correct rather than the wrong answer (unless there is some special programmer logic going on here that I don't understand).

edit, I am a programmer - just not a very good one.

 

Yes, yes, that's one devilishly good idea. *Nerd

 

I think perhaps you missed the "I'm not a very good programmer " bit.... *Sad