0008813: Upgrade to Windows Version Helper API

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008813	New Feature Requests	[All Projects] General	public	2015-04-05 10:40	2018-09-30 14:23

Reporter	Jusonex	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform		OS	Windows	OS Version	> NT 6.2

Summary	0008813: Upgrade to Windows Version Helper API
Description	GetVersion and GetVersionEx have been deprecated since Windows 8.1 (NT 6.3) and always return 6.2 now. Instead, Microsoft introduced the version helper API which requires an app manifest to be embedded. If we want to be able to get the correct OS version in the future, we'll have to upgrade to the version helper API. More information on: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn481241%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#base.version_helper_apis https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn424972%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724451%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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