diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index 58ea8e590950..c8e143f90c8f 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -96,7 +96,13 @@
     <MicrosoftNETCoreAppHostPackageVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion)</MicrosoftNETCoreAppHostPackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftNETCoreAppRuntimePackageVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion)</MicrosoftNETCoreAppRuntimePackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRuntimePackageVersion>$(MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRefPackageVersion)</MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRuntimePackageVersion>
-    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimePackageVersion>$(MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion)</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimePackageVersion>
+    <!-- These are set based on the runtime shared framework and internal versions. This is because windowsdesktop is not built in
+         all VMR builds, but its version numbers are used to generate various bits of information. The VMR always aligns the version
+         numbers of the shared frameworks. -->
+    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimePackageVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion)</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimePackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion)</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCorePlatformsPackageVersion)</MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppInternalPackageVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCorePlatformsPackageVersion)</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppInternalPackageVersion>
 
     <HostFxrVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCoreAppRuntimePackageVersion)</HostFxrVersion>
     <SharedHostVersion>$(MicrosoftNETCoreAppRuntimePackageVersion)</SharedHostVersion>
diff --git a/eng/Version.Details.xml b/eng/Version.Details.xml
index ad914abdd21d..e6a077f2048e 100644
--- a/eng/Version.Details.xml
+++ b/eng/Version.Details.xml
@@ -225,18 +225,6 @@
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
       <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Ref" Version="10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101">
-      <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
-      <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
-    </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Internal" Version="10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101">
-      <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
-      <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
-    </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop" Version="10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101">
-      <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
-      <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
-    </Dependency>
     <Dependency Name="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref" Version="10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
       <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
@@ -362,15 +350,6 @@
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
       <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <!-- For coherency purposes, these versions should be gated by the versions of winforms and wpf routed via windowsdesktop -->
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.Dotnet.WinForms.ProjectTemplates" Version="10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101">
-      <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
-      <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
-    </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.DotNet.Wpf.ProjectTemplates" Version="10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101">
-      <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
-      <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
-    </Dependency>
     <Dependency Name="Microsoft.Web.Xdt" Version="3.2.0-preview.25359.101">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet</Uri>
       <Sha>f451e5d3036a4f140a989e0a7f3f1ae432420e71</Sha>
diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index 1edcb3089790..1e03ae2f13b6 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -95,10 +95,6 @@
     <!-- Dependency from https://github.com/dotnet/aspire -->
     <AspirePackageVersion>9.1.0-preview.1.24555.3</AspirePackageVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <!-- Dependency from https://github.com/dotnet/winforms -->
-    <MicrosoftDotnetWinFormsProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftDotnetWinFormsProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>
-  </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/dotnet/runtime -->
     <MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion>
@@ -148,11 +144,6 @@
     <SystemThreadingTasksExtensionsToolsetPackageVersion>4.5.4</SystemThreadingTasksExtensionsToolsetPackageVersion>
     <SystemResourcesExtensionsToolsetPackageVersion>8.0.0</SystemResourcesExtensionsToolsetPackageVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/dotnet/windowsdesktop -->
-    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppInternalPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppInternalPackageVersion>
-    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>
-  </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/nuget/nuget.client -->
     <NuGetBuildTasksPackageVersion>7.0.0-preview.1.23</NuGetBuildTasksPackageVersion>
@@ -241,7 +232,6 @@
     <MicrosoftAspNetCoreMvcApiAnalyzersPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftAspNetCoreMvcApiAnalyzersPackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftAspNetCoreAnalyzersPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftAspNetCoreAnalyzersPackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftAspNetCoreTestHostPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftAspNetCoreTestHostPackageVersion>
-    <MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRuntimewinx64PackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.5.25265.101</MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRuntimewinx64PackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRefInternalPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRefInternalPackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftAspNetCoreAuthenticationFacebookVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftAspNetCoreAuthenticationFacebookVersion>
     <MicrosoftAspNetCoreAuthenticationGoogleVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftAspNetCoreAuthenticationGoogleVersion>
@@ -260,7 +250,6 @@
     <MicrosoftExtensionsFileProvidersEmbeddedVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftExtensionsFileProvidersEmbeddedVersion>
     <MicrosoftDotNetWebItemTemplates100PackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftDotNetWebItemTemplates100PackageVersion>
     <MicrosoftDotNetWebProjectTemplates100PackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftDotNetWebProjectTemplates100PackageVersion>
-    <VSRedistCommonAspNetCoreSharedFrameworkx64100PackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.5.25265.101</VSRedistCommonAspNetCoreSharedFrameworkx64100PackageVersion>
     <dotnetdevcertsPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</dotnetdevcertsPackageVersion>
     <dotnetuserjwtsPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</dotnetuserjwtsPackageVersion>
     <dotnetusersecretsPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</dotnetusersecretsPackageVersion>
@@ -282,11 +271,6 @@
     <EmscriptenVersionNet7>3.1.12</EmscriptenVersionNet7>
     <EmscriptenVersionNet6>2.0.23</EmscriptenVersionNet6>
   </PropertyGroup>
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/dotnet/wpf -->
-    <MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>
-    <MicrosoftDotNetWpfProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>10.0.0-preview.7.25359.101</MicrosoftDotNetWpfProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>
-  </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Label="Infrastructure and test only dependencies">
     <VersionToolsVersion>2.2.0-beta.19072.10</VersionToolsVersion>
     <MicrosoftDotNetScenarioTestsSdkTemplateTestsVersion>10.0.0-preview.24602.1</MicrosoftDotNetScenarioTestsSdkTemplateTestsVersion>
diff --git a/src/Layout/redist/targets/BundledTemplates.targets b/src/Layout/redist/targets/BundledTemplates.targets
index d244ad99887f..d0681a419c10 100644
--- a/src/Layout/redist/targets/BundledTemplates.targets
+++ b/src/Layout/redist/targets/BundledTemplates.targets
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
   <ItemGroup Label=".NET 10.0 templates">
     <Bundled100Templates Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ItemTemplates.10.0" PackageVersion="$(MicrosoftDotNetWebItemTemplates100PackageVersion)" />
     <Bundled100Templates Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ProjectTemplates.10.0" PackageVersion="$(MicrosoftDotNetWebProjectTemplates100PackageVersion)" UseVersionForTemplateInstallPath="true" />
-    <Bundled100Templates Include="Microsoft.Dotnet.WinForms.ProjectTemplates" PackageVersion="$(MicrosoftDotNetWinFormsProjectTemplatesPackageVersion)" Condition="'$(DotNetBuildSourceOnly)' != 'true'" />
-    <Bundled100Templates Include="Microsoft.Dotnet.Wpf.ProjectTemplates" PackageVersion="$(MicrosoftDotNetWpfProjectTemplatesPackageVersion)" Condition="'$(DotNetBuildSourceOnly)' != 'true'" />
+    <Bundled100Templates Include="Microsoft.Dotnet.WinForms.ProjectTemplates" PackageVersion="$(MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion)" Condition="'$(DotNetBuildSourceOnly)' != 'true'" />
+    <Bundled100Templates Include="Microsoft.Dotnet.Wpf.ProjectTemplates" PackageVersion="$(MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion)" Condition="'$(DotNetBuildSourceOnly)' != 'true'" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Layout/redist/targets/GenerateBundledVersions.targets b/src/Layout/redist/targets/GenerateBundledVersions.targets
index 2395474c38b8..b8cb17d9d978 100644
--- a/src/Layout/redist/targets/GenerateBundledVersions.targets
+++ b/src/Layout/redist/targets/GenerateBundledVersions.targets
@@ -32,18 +32,14 @@
        <Output TaskParameter="DependencyCommit" PropertyName="DepAspNetCoreCommit" />
     </GetDependencyInfo>
 
-    <GetDependencyInfo
-      VersionDetailsXmlFile="$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)Version.Details.xml"
-      DependencyName="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Ref"
-      Condition="'$(DotNetBuildFromVMR)' != 'true'">
-       <Output TaskParameter="DependencyVersion" PropertyName="DepWindowsDesktopVersion" />
-       <Output TaskParameter="DependencyCommit" PropertyName="DepWindowsDesktopCommit" />
-    </GetDependencyInfo>
-
     <ItemGroup Label="Version info">
       <Line Include="runtime" Version="$(MicrosoftNETCoreAppRefPackageVersion)" Commit="$([MSBuild]::ValueOrDefault('$(DepRuntimeCommit)', '$(BUILD_SOURCEVERSION)'))" />
       <Line Include="aspnetcore" Version="$(MicrosoftAspNetCoreAppRefPackageVersion)" Commit="$([MSBuild]::ValueOrDefault('$(DepAspNetCoreCommit)', '$(BUILD_SOURCEVERSION)'))" />
-      <Line Include="windowsdesktop" Version="$(MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion)" Commit="$([MSBuild]::ValueOrDefault('$(DepWindowsDesktopCommit)', '$(BUILD_SOURCEVERSION)'))" />
+      <!-- For the WindowsDesktop commit, use the Microsoft.NETCore.App.Ref commit.
+           These will always be the same and the Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Ref dependency has been eliminated from Version.Details.xml
+           so the info cannot be used since in VMR builds Linux/Mac do not build WindowsDesktop, even though
+           info about WindowsDesktop **does** leak into those SDKs. -->
+      <Line Include="windowsdesktop" Version="$(MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion)" Commit="$([MSBuild]::ValueOrDefault('$(DepRuntimeCommit)', '$(BUILD_SOURCEVERSION)'))" />
       <Line Include="sdk" Version="$(PackageVersion)" Commit="$(BUILD_SOURCEVERSION)" />
     </ItemGroup>