Determine Windows Version
Who would have thought a simple question like "what version of windows am I running under?" would be so complicated?
This stub retrieves the number as a string. A complete working script which parses ver and responds accordingly:
- view winver2.cmd
- download winver2.cmd
For practical purposes you might be better off with Simon Sheppard's approach.
@echo off for /f "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%x in ('ver') do (
set WINVER=%%x
set WINVER=%WINVER:Version =%
echo CMD version is %winver%
)
A one liner for the major number (reg.exe not always available, XP and newer I think):
reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v CurrentVersion
References#
- http://ss64.com/nt/ver.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...ne_of_releases
- http://ss64.org/viewtopic.php?id=879
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...-is-running-on
Windows Version Table#
Scraped from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...ne_of_releases
| Product name | Latest version | General availability date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 1.0 | 1.01 | November 20, 1985 | |
| Windows 2.0 | 2.03 | December 9, 1987 | |
| Windows 2.1 | 2.11 | May 27, 1988 | |
| Windows 3.0 | 3.0 | May 22, 1990 | |
| Windows 3.1 | 3.1 | April 6, 1992 | |
| Windows For Workgroups 3.1 | 3.1 | October 1992 | |
| Windows NT 3.1 | NT 3.1.528 | July 27, 1993 | |
| Windows For Workgroups 3.11 | 3.11 | August 11, 1993 | |
| Windows 3.2 | 3.2 | November 22, 1993 | |
| Windows NT 3.5 | NT 3.5.807 | September 21, 1994 | |
| Windows NT 3.51 | NT 3.51.1057 | May 30, 1995 | |
| Windows 95 | 4.0.950 | August 24, 1995 | |
| Windows NT 4.0 | NT 4.0.1381 | July 31, 1996 | |
| Windows 98 | 4.10.1998 | June 25, 1998 | |
| Windows 98 SE | 4.10.2222 | May 5, 1999 | |
| Windows 2000 | NT 5.0.2195 | February 17, 2000 | |
| Windows Me | 4.90.3000 | September 14, 2000 | |
| Windows XP | NT 5.1.2600 | October 25, 2001 | |
| Windows XP 64-bit Edition | NT 5.2.3790 | March 28, 2003 | |
| Windows Server 2003 | NT 5.2.3790 | April 24, 2003 | |
| Windows XP Professional x64 Edition | NT 5.2.3790 | April 25, 2005 | |
| Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs | NT 5.1.2600 | July 8, 2006 | |
| Windows Vista | NT 6.0.6003 | January 30, 2007 | |
| Windows Home Server | NT 5.2.4500 | November 4, 2007 | |
| Windows Server 2008 | NT 6.0.6003 | February 27, 2008 | |
| Windows 7 | NT 6.1.7601 | October 22, 2009 | |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | NT 6.1.7601 | October 22, 2009 | |
| Windows Home Server 2011 | NT 6.1.8400 | April 6, 2011 | |
| Windows Server 2012 | NT 6.2.9200 | September 4, 2012 | |
| Windows 8 | NT 6.2.9200 | October 26, 2012 | |
| Windows 8.1 | NT 6.3.9600 | October 17, 2013 | |
| Windows Server 2012 R2 | NT 6.3.9600 | October 18, 2013 | |
| Windows 10 | NT 10.0.18363 | July 29, 2015 | |
| Windows Server 2016 | NT 10.0.14393 | October 12, 2016 | |
| Windows Server 2019 | NT 10.0.17763 | October 2, 2018 |
date: 2021-06-21