Just as an reminder. Most comprehensive and updated list is in my post here: Web Browsers compatible with Windows 7
CFF Explorer works better than the Editor I was using, but I've taken one of the .exe files and searched diligently for where to make the changes and still can't see what I am looking for. If someone could modify just one of the files and post it somewhere so I could get a clue, I'd appreciate it. When you don't have the skills that others have, it is sometimes difficult to know what you're looking at.
I haven't the sw installed here, but on the left panel, it should be in the additional nt header properties (something like that), then on the right panel scroll down there are three major values (commonly set to 4 or 6 or 10) and three minor values usually set to 0/1/2/3, edit all the six values and save the file. Obviously major 6, minor 3 means win8.1/server2012R2, major 6, minor 0 means vista/server 2008 and so on.
Thanks for that. I am now looking at the 3 major values and the 3 minor ones. In the right hand panel there are 4 columns: Member, Offset, Size and Value. But there are no regular numbers. For example, under the Member column there is "MajorOperatingSysytemVersion", under the Offset column there is "000000B8", under the Size column there is "Word", and under the Value column is "000A". I'm thinking those need to be converted using a formula of some kind. By the way, what would be the major and minor values to input (as you gave for 8.1 etc) for Windows 7?
000A is hex and translates to 10 in dec. Most probably Windows NT 10.x or higher. Try changing it to 0006 and Minor to 0001, means 6.1 = Windows 7.
This is vivaldi.exe as example the values are set to 5.1 (XP 32) or 0.0 (no limit). So in such case no mod is needed.
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Chrome Enterprise v109.0.5414.165 also works fine on 32bit/x86 Win7 as well (google has both 32bit & 64bit enterprise MSI installer packages available)
Perhaps 64bit browsers are one of the most pointless things in the history of IT. Just use the 32bit ones and live long and prosper.