I'm on Win11, Programs think I'm on Win10

[Glitchking123]

Hey everyone,

I looked all over the internet for solutions and found absolutely nothing. I am running the latest version of Windows 11, in fact I just did an update instal through a flash drive instead of windows update to get a more clean installation. However, all of my programs think that I am on Windows 10 and I can't update any of my applications because they are all saying my system is out of date or that they "do not support this version of windows" (windows 10) even though I am very clearly running Windows 11. Can someone please help me with this issue? It's been going on for months and I don't want to keep putting it off.

 

[USAFRet]

Specifically, which applications?

Which Win 11 version?
From where?

Can you show us any screencaps of this?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Software written before Windows 11 existed will not know how to deal with the version number returned by Windows 11 when queried for version. That's what compatibility mode is there for.

 

[Glitchking123]

Specifically, which applications?

Which Win 11 version?
From where?

Can you show us any screencaps of this?

Haha, so sorry but I just now updated windows and ran a disk check before updating as well as a DISM restore health and an sfc (I did literally everything that could possibly fix windows) and while this wasn't working before, for some reason everything fixed just now. My applications are updating now (the ones in question were spotify, Mullvad VPN, some VST plugins I use for music production) Windows is so wonky and based on my past experiences with Windows 10, I thought I was going to have to clean instal yet again. I can't possibly explain how or why this suddenly worked but thanks for trying to help!

 

[Colif]

in some ways win 11 still appears to be a version of win 10

23H2 build number is 10.0.22631.

Windows 11 version history - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[kerberos_20]

in some other ways windows 7 was nt 6.1 and win8 had build number nt 6.2/6.3

but essentialy apps recognise installed win by its build numbers