which os is running

Brian Andersen

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Dec 5, 2001, 2:34:39 PM12/5/01

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Hi there

I need to find out which OS is running my vbs script (windows 2000 or
windows 98)

Does anyone have a hint ?

Thanks Brian

Anthony Hunter

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Dec 5, 2001, 3:40:31 PM12/5/01

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Try this. It is from the Microsoft Platform SDK.

' Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Microsoft Corporation
'***************************************************************************
'
' WMI Sample Script - Information about the OS (VBScript)
'
' This script demonstrates how to retrieve the info about the OS on the local machine from instances of
' Win32_OperatingSystem.
'
'***************************************************************************
Set SystemSet = GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf ("Win32_OperatingSystem")

for each System in SystemSet
WScript.Echo System.Caption
WScript.Echo System.Manufacturer
WScript.Echo System.BuildType
WScript.Echo " Version: " + System.Version
WScript.Echo " Locale: " + System.Locale
WScript.Echo " Windows Directory: " + System.WindowsDirectory
WScript.Echo " Total memory: " + System.TotalVisibleMemorySize + " bytes"
WScript.Echo " Serial Number: " + System.SerialNumber
Wscript.Echo ""
next

Anthony

Brian Andersen

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Dec 5, 2001, 4:10:07 PM12/5/01

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Thanks, but when I ran this on a win98 is comes out with a vbscript failure.

on w2k is works just fine

Brian

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Matthew Schneider

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Dec 5, 2001, 4:36:17 PM12/5/01

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You need to install WMI on your Win98 computer, it is not defaultly.

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Brian Andersen

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Dec 5, 2001, 5:17:00 PM12/5/01

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Thanks, It works fine

Brian

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Torgeir Bakken

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Dec 6, 2001, 2:49:45 AM12/6/01

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Hi

If you don't want to install WMI on your W9x machines, take a look at this
thread for a script that reads from registry to detect OS version:

From: Greg Burns (greg_...@hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: Get os version
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh
Date: 2001-06-26 12:21:58 PST

If you want to add support for Windows XP, add an Elseif testing for 5.1 (copy
the W2000/5.0 test).

You can use http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search to fetch it :-)

--
torgeir

Alex Angelopoulos

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Dec 6, 2001, 5:50:16 AM12/6/01

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One other tmodification I always like to make to these scripts is to make
"tech-friendly" output. IN the appropriate environment (technicians who
know what is going on) I like to leave the version strings as is: less
coding work and I always have a precise version number staring at me.

If that is not something comfortable for you, at least echo it back when you
have an "unknown" OS.

For "friendly" information on NT-like OSes, you can use the value of
ProductName under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion" instead of doing heavy logic. For a case statement, the
data from CurrentBuild or CurrentBuildNumber in the same location will give
you a short, simple string that precisely defines the version of the OS.

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