Making our little utility compatible with Windows 8?

Hi,
I'm the admin for a community website called rFactorcentral. To help support our site, we offer a service called the '1 click install' which allows our users to easily install 'modifications' to a simulator. This 1 click process requires a utility which was
developed a few years before Windows 8 was released.
Unfortunately, it appears this utility crashes in Windows 8, despite having tried everything. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to make our utility work within Windows 8.
The link to download the utility is:
rfactorcentral.com/rfactorcentral_client/rfcclientsetup.exe
This utility would also experience a similar crash in Windows 7 64bit if this patch was missing:
microsoft.DOT.COM/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=90548130-4468-4BBC-9673-D6ACABD5D13B
It would also crash in Windows XP or Vista if this patch was missing:
microsoft.DOT.COMdownloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325fd-ae52-4e35-b531-508d977d32a6&displaylang=en
Based on those patches, does anyone have an idea if a similar patch is available for Windows 8?
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Having written all of this, i now realize testing the client could require a membership, if anyone is interested in testing this further, please send an email to support@rfactorcentral and we can arrange a username and
password for you.
Thanks in advance for anyone's help.
Kind regards,
Team rFC

Maybe it's too good to be true. When we posted in another thread for closure, we received this reply from user PA Bear:
"You're welcome & thanks for your feedback.
PS: Your client may have Win8.1 & KB2919355 installed by now, not Win8."
Unfortunately, we are still on Windows 7, so Windows 8 is a bit unknown to us. Can anyone with a version of Windows 8 upgrade to Win8.1, for free? Is it like a service pack for authenticated machines or is it a totally separate version of Windows users would
have to purchase? We are hoping any user with any updated version of Windows 8 should be able to use our software. Thanks for any light you can shed on this aspect, very much appreciated.
Best,
Team rFC

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