diff --git a/PowerEditor/src/MISC/PluginsManager/Notepad_plus_msgs.h b/PowerEditor/src/MISC/PluginsManager/Notepad_plus_msgs.h
index f74cd35d2..0737868cf 100644
--- a/PowerEditor/src/MISC/PluginsManager/Notepad_plus_msgs.h
+++ b/PowerEditor/src/MISC/PluginsManager/Notepad_plus_msgs.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ enum LangType {L_TEXT, L_PHP , L_C, L_CPP, L_CS, L_OBJC, L_JAVA, L_RC,\
 			   L_CMAKE, L_YAML, L_COBOL, L_GUI4CLI, L_D, L_POWERSHELL, L_R, L_JSP,\
 			   // The end of enumated language type, so it should be always at the end
 			   L_EXTERNAL};
-enum winVer{WV_UNKNOWN, WV_WIN32S, WV_95, WV_98, WV_ME, WV_NT, WV_W2K, WV_XP, WV_S2003, WV_XPX64, WV_VISTA, WV_WIN7};
+enum winVer{WV_UNKNOWN, WV_WIN32S, WV_95, WV_98, WV_ME, WV_NT, WV_W2K, WV_XP, WV_S2003, WV_XPX64, WV_VISTA, WV_WIN7, WV_WIN8};
 
 
 //#include "deprecatedSymbols.h"
diff --git a/PowerEditor/src/Parameters.cpp b/PowerEditor/src/Parameters.cpp
index 168f574e2..f086b0b03 100644
--- a/PowerEditor/src/Parameters.cpp
+++ b/PowerEditor/src/Parameters.cpp
@@ -551,6 +551,11 @@ winVer getWindowsVersion()
    {
 		case VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT:
 		{
+			if ( osvi.dwMajorVersion == 6 && osvi.dwMinorVersion == 2 )
+			{
+				return WV_WIN8;
+			}
+
 			if ( osvi.dwMajorVersion == 6 && osvi.dwMinorVersion == 1 )
 			{
 				return WV_WIN7;