[Bug 45753] Office 2010 reruns setup on starting any app

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45753

Josh DuBois <duboisj at codeweavers.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Josh DuBois <duboisj at codeweavers.com> ---
(In reply to Dmitry Timoshkov from comment #6)
> (In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #5)
> > > I guess that the same incompatible change would happen during
> > > the Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade.
> > 
> > I imagine you're right, but both the wineprefixes in question were set to XP
> > and I did not change that. Forced upgrades did not come to Windows until
> > Windows 10.
> 
> I'm afraid that using Wine implies the continues forced upgrade...
> Anyway, this needs a retest before throwing even more speculations,
> and the retest should be done with default Windows 7 configuration.

Is this really what Wine has always done, or what it should do?  I would have
hoped that an existing WinXP prefix would not receive a configuration change
which would break a previously working prefix / application.  

Is it simply too complicated to avoid (either in this case or in general)?

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