Subj : Re: Detecting Win XP
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jogy
Date : Tue Jun 15 2004 04:42 pm

A Davis wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> I can detect whether the OS is Win2000/NT using the code shown below, but is
> there a way to detect if it's Win XP (as opposed to Win98) ?
> It's probably possible to look at the Windows Folder to see if it contains a
> WinXP sub-string, but this seems like a dangerous method.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regards Al
> 
> ______
> OSVERSIONINFO osv;
>  osv.dwOSVersionInfoSize=sizeof(osv);
>  GetVersionEx(&osv);
>  if(osv.dwPlatformId==VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT)...it's Windows NT/2000
> ______
> 
> 

Hello,

The VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT includes XP.


You must check the dwMajorVersion and dwMinorVersion members:


dwMajorVersion
Identifies the major version number of the operating system as follows. 
Windows 95: 4
Windows 98: 4
Windows Me: 4
Windows NT 3.51: 3
Windows NT 4.0: 4
Windows 2000: 5
Windows XP: 5
Windows .NET Server: 5



dwMinorVersion
Identifies the minor version number of the operating system as follows. 
Windows 95: 0
Windows 98: 10
Windows Me: 90
Windows NT 3.51: 51
Windows NT 4.0: 0
Windows 2000: 0
Windows XP: 1
Windows .NET Server: 1



Check this sample code from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getting_the_system_version.asp







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