How to identify if the OS is Vista or higher

23 Nov 2007 2:14 PM

DPM

Hi,

Is there a way to know if the OS version is Vista or higher through a MS-DOS
batch
file ?

Following is a sample which I managed to do

Ver > OSVer.Txt
FIND "[Version 6." OSVer.Txt > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO OS is not Vista
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO OS is Vista

The problems which I have regarding the above are,
- How to get the output from the VER command to a variable ? or is there any
other command ?
- Say if I send the output from VER to a text file how to know whether the
OS is Vista and above ?
(FIND only searches for a perticular text)

Please advise.

24 Nov 2007 3:05 AM

Al Dunbar

"DPM" <a*@bb.cc> wrote in message
news:eqNzIwdLIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to know if the OS version is Vista or higher through a
> MS-DOS
> batch
> file ?

Since Vista is currently the most recently release version of windows, what
othre versions are you thinking of as being higher than that?

> Following is a sample which I managed to do
>
> Ver > OSVer.Txt
> FIND "[Version 6." OSVer.Txt > NUL
> IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO OS is not Vista
> IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO OS is Vista
>
> The problems which I have regarding the above are,
> - How to get the output from the VER command to a variable ? or is there
> any
> other command ?

If you are running your batch file on some version of windows higher than
MS-DOS, you could try this:

for /f "tokens=*" %%F in ('ver') do set _ver=%%F

> - Say if I send the output from VER to a text file how to know whether the
> OS is Vista and above ?
> (FIND only searches for a perticular text)

One way would be to determine all of the possible values produced by the ver
command and test each one, i.e.:

    for /f "tokens=*" %%F in ('ver') do set _ver=%%F

    if /i "%_ver%" EQU "Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]" set _OS=XP
    if /i "%_ver%" EQU "Microsoft Windows Vista [Version 6.whatever it is]"
set _OS=WV

and etc.

/Al