Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

A 4kB plugin to get Windows version info:
name, type, version, server name, service pack name, and service pack build.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/wiki/File:GetVersion.zip

Type is e.g. Home Edition

Edit: I could add other version info stuff later if anyone needs it (i.e. non Windows version stuff).

-Stu

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Registered: Jan 2003
From: Ubuntu land

So... Stu is learning API, huh?

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Registered: Dec 2004
From: Turkey

Great, but better call it "GetOSversion" to avoid confusion with get FileVersion data.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

I didn't call it that because I may add other version stuff to it, e.g. IE version or perhaps Microsoft Office etc.

Edit: Just added IEVersion which returns IE version and build.

-Stu

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Last edited by Afrow UK on 07-16-2005 at 06:18 PM

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

New version with support for x64, Longhorn, Vista.
Also added WindowsPlatformId and WindowsPlatformArchitecture functions.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/wiki/File:GetVersion.zip

-Stu

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Registered: Aug 2002
From: Texas

Thanks for this; it is appreciated.

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Registered: Mar 2006
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stu

Great plugin just one slight problem it reports windows media center editon as XP which it is to a degree but would be nice if it could also detect this.

thanks

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

Right I'll look into it.

-Stu

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

Please try this out (WindowsType function).
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/File:GetVersion.zip

-Stu

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Registered: Mar 2006
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Hi Stu,

Still reports as Windows XP.

Found this, might give a heads up URL submitted by user.

Looks like they read the ident key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Ident key

and depending on the value returned determines the version and any patches.

Hope this helps.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

I did say WindowsType function not WindowsName

-Stu

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Registered: Feb 2003
From: TGM, Romania

hello,
i was using a plugin for windows detection but it is outdated. so i turned to GetVersion.
my software is only for NT platform (NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista). can i make a check for this with your plugin ?
i want the installer to check the platform (9x or NT) and ... i'll do the rest...

one more question. what is WindowsPlatformId from your plugin ?

thanks,
OJi.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

1) GetVersion::WindowsName will return e.g. "Windows 2000"
2) Each Windows has a different Platform ID, like 1 2 3 etc. You should be able to find something about this on Google.

-Stu

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

I am going to rebuild the plugin just to return 2000 if /short is specified as a parameter.

Edit: Now returns e.g. 2000 instead of Windows 2000.

-Stu

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Registered: Feb 2003
From: TGM, Romania

thanks, i will try it.

OJi.

edit - the version from wiki is still from april. please post a reply when you upload the new version.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

Uploaded.

By the way, the DLL uses .NET because some of its features are only supported by .NET (i.e. Vista detection).
So, you might want to test the DLL on a system without Microsoft .NET Framework installed.

-Stu

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Registered: Feb 2003
From: TGM, Romania

i will. thanks again.

OJi.

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Registered: Dec 2005
From: Glow

quote:

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Originally posted by Afrow UK
Uploaded.

By the way, the DLL uses .NET because some of its features are only supported by .NET (i.e. Vista detection).
So, you might want to test the DLL on a system without Microsoft .NET Framework installed.

-Stu

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

What would have expected it to return?
There may be a bug.

-Stu

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Registered: Dec 2005
From: Glow

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Originally posted by Afrow UK
What would have expected it to return?
There may be a bug.

-Stu

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

What is in "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions\ProductType"?

-Stu

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Registered: Dec 2005
From: Glow

It's "WinNT"

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Registered: Jan 2005
From: Oregon Coast

FYI:
I just downloaded your latest version and found that IE detection is returning 6.0 when I have 7.0 installed.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

I may remove that function. You can read the IE version from the registry. Infact there's a function in the NSIS documentation under Useful Scripts which reads from the registry. Does that work?

-Stu

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Registered: Jan 2005
From: Oregon Coast

Yep, that works.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

The plugin function reads the version value from shdocvw.dll
I guess they have left it as 6.0 or something.

-Stu

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Registered: Jan 2005
From: Oregon Coast

Yep, right you are. I just checked mine and it is version 6.0.2900.2919.

edit:
Just to let you know, I've OK with just reading the registry. I only mentioned the problem because you had a feature that didn't work as designed.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

Thanks
I will remove the function soon.

-Stu

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Registered: Jul 2008
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Is there an easy way to detect if the operating system is windows server 2000? I tried the latest release and on windows 2000 server it gives me "Windows 2000 version 5.0 (Type : Professional, Server Name : )".

code:

 GetVersion::WindowsName
 Pop $0
 GetVersion::WindowsType
 Pop $1
 GetVersion::WindowsServerName
 Pop $2
 GetVersion::WindowsVersion
 Pop $3

 DetailPrint "Windows $0 version $3 (Type : $1, Server Name : $2)"

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Registered: Jul 2004
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Hi Stuart,

you posted that you maybe will include more products or version checks.

What do you think about including a version check for .Net, which will work with dotNet 1, 2 and 3.

In wiki is a script which is able to do that and it seems to work like a charme, but maybe it would be cool to have it in this plugin, so no additional scripts are needed.

kind regards
chefkoch

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Registered: Feb 2003
From: TGM, Romania

Hey,

Can you update the plugin for windows Server 2008 versions and (maybe) future windows 7 ?

thanks,
OJi.

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Registered: Aug 2007
From: Frankfurt, Germany

Hi Stuart,

any plans of making this work with the unicode version of NSIS?

I tried and only get nice little "boxes" and some numbers back

regards
xBarns

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Originally posted by xbarns
Hi Stuart,

any plans of making this work with the unicode version of NSIS?

I tried and only get nice little "boxes" and some numbers back

regards
xBarns

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Registered: Oct 2001
From: Israel

You need to use RequestExecutionLevel to avoid Vista's compatibility hacks. If it doesn't work, there might be a problem with the embedded manifest. Maybe it was converted to UTF-16 as well though it should stay UTF-8.

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You need to use RequestExecutionLevel to avoid Vista's compatibility hacks. If it doesn't work, there might be a problem with the embedded manifest. Maybe it was converted to UTF-16 as well though it should stay UTF-8.

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The manifest is all right. For some reason the generated installer ran in Windows XP compatiblity mode. And not for me, but for "all users": right-click icon, properties, compatibility, settings for all users. Ticking that one off, and GetVersion.dll returns Vista again.

I rebuild GetVersion.dll and Processes.dll for Unicode. Now I can roll out our installer with Unicode language strings

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Registered: Feb 2005
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How about adding support for detecting Vista 64-bit and Windows 7?

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Registered: Jun 2002
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you already have a header with 64 bit stuff.

7 is not out yet so we can't be 100% sure what the version number is, probably 6.1.XXXX

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Registered: May 2009
From: Lisbon, Portugal

Hi

Could you please introduce a function to return the value from wServicePackMajor and/or wServicePackMinor to complement the existing WindowsServicePack which uses szCSDVersion? It's just that the string in szCSDVersion is localized and therefore harder to parse (you have to look for the number assuming that instead of "Service Pack" you can get something else).

Thanks for the great plugin

Best regards,
Miguel

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

I'm afraid I do not have the tools available to build this plugin at this time (nor can I install them because I am on Vista here).

Stu

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Registered: Jan 2004
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There is a new version of WinVer.nsh that does detect Windows 7. I have the latest build, RC-1 on my laptop. I am willing to test GetVersion on it, as I need to have routines in my installers that detect Windows 7.

Thanks

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