So, this way I need to already know that I'm looking for Windows NT? Is there a
way to determine which Windows the user is on, if I don't know?
Thanks,
Albert
On Jun 7, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Christian Schmitz <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On 06.06.2013, at 19:54, Albert Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Christian,
>>
>> Can you help? I need to find the version of Windows OS the user is using.
>> I've used the following code from the examples on your website:
>>
>> const path="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion"
>
> If you look into registry with regedit, you'll notice that this path is
> right. For my copy of Windows 7, it needs to have "Windows NT" inside.
> Probably the path was for Windows 98 or so.
>
>
> const path="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion"
> dim r as new RegistryMBS
> msgBox "This OS is: "+r.getStringValue(path, "ProductName", true)
>
>
> This works here.
>
>
> Greetings
> Christian
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