Comparing OSVersionInfoEx to System Information “version”

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I’m trying to build a function that returns the OS version to an application. Does anyone know how to correlate the OSVersionInfoEx information to what a user would see on their System Information display? These show the current major.minor.build for Windows 10 Home as:

OSVersionInfoEx: 6.2.9200
System Information: 10.0.14393

Thanks for any input!

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If you don’t get any feedback here, maybe the Windows Programming forum might be a better place to post.

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On my Insider build 14931 both System Information program and WinVer show the same thing.

--Joe

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I’m trying to build a function that returns the OS version to an application. Does anyone know how to correlate the OSVersionInfoEx information to what a user would see on their System Information display?

You haven’t mentioned what you want to use the function in but is this article about using the Windows API in C# any use?

Alternatively, for .NET there’s this article (which is very similar).

Or PowerShell:

Code:

if ($OSVersionInfo -eq $null) {
  Set-Variable OSVersionInfo -Value (&{
    begin {
      $bf = {param([Int32]$i) [Reflection.BindingFlags]$i}
      
      $SuiteMask = {param([Int32]$i)
        (-join (($ht = @{
          VER_SUITE_BACKOFFICE               = 0x0004
          VER_SUITE_BLADE                    = 0x0400
          VER_SUITE_COMPUTE_SERVER           = 0x4000
          VER_SUITE_DATACENTER               = 0x0080
          VER_SUITE_ENTERPRISE               = 0x0002
          VER_SUITE_EMBEDDEDNT               = 0x0040
          VER_SUITE_PERSONAL                 = 0x0200
          VER_SUITE_SINGLEUSERTS             = 0x0100
          VER_SUITE_SMALLBUSINESS            = 0x0001
          VER_SUITE_SMALLBUSINESS_RESTRICTED = 0x0020
          VER_SUITE_STORAGE_SERVER           = 0x2000
          VER_SUITE_TERMINAL                 = 0x0010
          VER_SUITE_WH_SERVER                = 0x8000
        }).Keys | % {
          if (($i -band $ht[$_]) -eq $ht[$_]) {$_ + “`n”}
        })).Trim()
      }
      
      $ProductType = {param([Int32]$i)
        @(‘VER_NT_WORKSTATION’,’VER_NT_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER’, ‘Unknown’, ‘VER_NT_SERVER’)[(–$i)]
      }
      
      $ver = New-Object Object
    }
    process {
      $OSVERSIONINFOEX = ($Win32Native = [Object].Assembly.GetType(
        ‘Microsoft.Win32.Win32Native’
      )).GetNestedType(
        ‘OSVERSIONINFOEX’, (&$bf 32)
      ).InvokeMember(
        $null, (&$bf 512), $null, $null, $null
      )
      
      if (!$Win32Native.GetMethod(
        ‘GetVersionEx’, (&$bf 40), $null, [Type[]]@($OSVERSIONINFOEX.GetType()), $null
      ).Invoke(
        $null, @($OSVERSIONINFOEX)
      )) {
        (New-Object ComponentModel.Win32Exception(
          [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::GetLastWin32Error()
        )).Message
        return
      }
      
      $OSVERSIONINFOEX.GetType().GetFields((&$bf 36)) | % {
        if ($_.Name -notmatch ‘(?:(OSVersion)|(Reserved))’) {
          $ver | Add-Member $_.Name -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $(
            $val = $_.GetValue($OSVERSIONINFOEX)
            switch ($_.Name) {
              ‘SuiteMask’   {&$SuiteMask $val}
              ‘ProductType’ {&$ProductType $val}
              default       {$val}
            }
          ) #value
        } #if
      } #foreach
    }
    end {
      $ver
    }
  }) -Option Constant -Scope Global
}

If I just need something quick-and-dirty I use WMI (from within AutoHotkey, but you could use VBS) which produces:

45670-os_ver

from this:

Code:

strComputer := “.”
objWMIService := ComObjGet(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\” . strComputer . “rootcimv2”)
colSettings := objWMIService.ExecQuery(“Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem”)._NewEnum
While colSettings[objOSItem]
{
MsgBox % “Version: ” . objOSItem.Version
}

Or, alternatively:

Code:

RegRead, ProductName, HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion, ProductName
RegRead, ReleaseID, HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion, ReleaseID
RegRead, CurrentBuildNumber, HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion, CurrentBuildNumber
MsgBox, 64, The operating system is…, %ProductName% (Version/Build: %ReleaseID%.%CurrentBuildNumber%)

whick gives this:

45671-os_ver1

Hope this helps…

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