How to detect Operating System?

[Guern]

Hi,

Is there a call to return the OS type i.e. Win95, 98, NT, 2000 etc?

Thanks.

 

[chmohan]

in .net its done like this

http://www.dotnetextreme.com/code/detectosver.asp

or this

http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/index.html?code/helpers/iswinversion.htm

 

[Guern]

Hi,

Thanks for that. Yes, I can do .net, but this will be wsh on Win95/98 etc. They will not have .net installed.

At the moment, the idea I have is to look for certain files, but that's not as reliable as I'd like.

 

[mrmovie]

using WMI

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2&quot
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem&quot
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
Wscript.Echo objOperatingSystem.Caption & " " & objOperatingSystem.Version
Next

possibly faster, you can query ExpandEnvirnomentStrings and take a look at COMSPEC, being cmd.exe for w2k, nt etc and command for w9x

hope it helps