Technibble Tool: Windows Version Identifier

[jrruiz211]

very nice and useful, definitely making a link to this

[Turcoloco]

Originally Posted by Jory

Load the registry hive and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion. The EditionID key will tell you which version it is.

Correct. If I can boot the machine (without even logging on), I can remotely run a "Reg Query" to find that info too. On the actual machine, I can run the following command:

C:\>reg query "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion" /v ProductName | Find "Product"

End result would be something like this:

ProductName REG_SZ Windows 7 Enterprise

The trick would be to obtain this info when you cannot even boot up the machine. From Bryce's link, all I get was a web page, was that the tool or is there a downloadable version I missed?

[FoolishTech]

Originally Posted by Turcoloco

The trick would be to obtain this info when you cannot even boot up the machine.

Load the software hive on a system that does boot... do the same reg query with the hive name you assigned it... (or just use D7 ahem)