Get OS Information - Windows XP vs. Windows 7

[Alex Greber]

"System osSystem" answers 'WIN32_NT' on both OS Windows XP vs. Windows 7.

Any suggestions?

Regards .. Alex

 

[John O'Keefe]

Alex -

 

Did you mean System osType?  You can find the specific version of Windows using System osVersion (for example, this answers '5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 3' on WinXP).

 

John

[Narender Sharma]

In Java
System.getProperty( "os.name") gives "Windows XP"
and System.getProperty( "os.version") gives "5.1"

I think we can achieve the same in smalltalk. One of the way could be to read from registry (but then registry can always be tweaked).

Thanks!

[Alex Greber]

Hoi John.

 

Yes I meant "System osType"

 

So Looking at the first 3 characters of String "System osVersion" is the solution.

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724832(VS.85).aspx

Operating system	Version number
Windows 7	6.1
Windows Server 2008 R2	6.1
Windows Server 2008	6.0
Windows Vista	6.0
Windows Server 2003 R2	5.2
Windows Server 2003	5.2
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition	5.2
Windows XP	5.1
Windows 2000	5.0

 

 

Thanks! Alex

 

 

[Narender Sharma]

This is valuable information. Thanks for sharing it.

[Narender Sharma]

One thing that is problematic with version numbers is that they are not unique for different OS...

Operating system	Version number
Windows 7	6.1
Windows Server 2008 R2	6.1
Windows Server 2008	6.0
Windows Vista	6.0
Windows Server 2003 R2	5.2
Windows Server 2003	5.2
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition	5.2

Thanks!