Batch File

[justagirl]

Wasn't sure in what forum to place this question, if wrong place please suggest where.

Need to create a batch file which I can run from a single point on the network (will be run from the client end). The basic idea is the batch file looks up the windows version (will either be 98 or 2000) and copies the relevent files down to the client computer and executes a further batch file.

Now have no problems create most of the batch file, its just how do I get the windows version and use this info in the batch file??

Tried browsing the web but got nowhere fast

 

[Palagast]

In the registry, you can extract the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName

Might be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProductName for older versions of Windows.

Don't exactly know how to extract the data from there, but at least now you know where to find it.

Good luck!

 

[BHuckfield]

why not use the "ver" command?
once you have the results just do an IF statement to copy to the relevant machine type.
have you tried that?

 

[quicksaab]

I use vbscript instead of batch. This should work to get the key that Palagast reccomended.

Dim WshShell, bKey
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell&quot


bKey = WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName
&quot
WScript.Echo WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName
&quot

paste into notepad and save it as filename.vbs

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[quicksaab]

change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to HKLM

 

[quicksaab]

change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to HKLM

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