getOperatingSystemName() Does not return Windows 10

[daniel]

That’s probably related to this communication:

getOperatingSystemType() returns wrong OS type with some DAW

Here is the official Microsoft documentation for the version number hack jules mentioned: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724451 Basically, if you want the Windows version to be reported correctly on Win8.1 and Win10, you need to put an extra thing in the app manifest saying that your app supports Win8.1 and Win10. However an audio plug-in cannot do that as it is merely a DLL loaded in a host. So to fix this, the host (Reaper in your case) needs to have that app man…

There it was about getOperatingSystemName() in a plugin, but the clues about manifests and stuff might apply here too…