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03/25/2002
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Uploader: Ronald Buster
Company: DISPI software Engineering
Reference: dispi.com
 
Question/Problem/Abstract:
Here is how to find out almost everything of windows versions.

regards

Ronald



Answer:



function  IsWin31 : Boolean;
var OS : TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  Result := (Os.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32s);
end;

function  IsWin95 : Boolean;
var OS : TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=(OS.dwMajorVersion >= 4) and (OS.dwMinorVersion = 0) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS);
end;

function IsWin95OSR2 : Boolean;
var
  OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=(OS.dwMajorVersion >= 4) and (OS.dwMinorVersion = 0) and (lo(OS.dwBuildNumber) > 1000) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS);
end;

function  IsWinNT: Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=OS.dwPlatformId=VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT;
end;

function IsWin98 : Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=(OS.dwMajorVersion >= 4) and (OS.dwMinorVersion > 0) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS);
end;

function  IsWin98se : Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=(OS.dwMajorVersion >= 4) and (OS.dwMinorVersion > 0) and (lo(OS.dwBuildNumber) > 2000) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS);
end;

function IsWin2000 : Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result := (OS.dwMajorVersion >= 5) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT);
end;

function  IsWinXP : Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result := (OS.dwMajorVersion >= 5) and (OS.dwMinorVersion >= 1) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT);
end;


function IsWinMe : Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=(OS.dwMajorVersion >= 4) and (OS.dwMinorVersion >= 90) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS);
end;


function GetNTType : String;
var r : TRegistry;
    ts : String;
begin

  Result := '[UNKNOWN]';

  if IsWinNT then
    begin
      r := TRegistry.Create;
      r.RootKey := HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
      r.OpenKey('SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions',False);
      ts := AnsiUpperCase(R.ReadString('ProductType'));
      r.Free;
      if (ts = 'WINNT') then
        begin
          result := 'Workstation';
          if IsWin2000 then
            result := 'Professional';
        end
      else if (ts = 'SERVERNT') then
        begin
           result := 'Server';
         end
      else if (ts = 'LANMANNT') then
        begin
          result := 'Advanced Server';
        end;
    end;

end;





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Does not work for my Win98se
    John Stevenson (Mar 28 2002 1:58AM)

Tried it out using ...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  ss: String;
begin
  ss := '';
  if IsWin95 then
    ss := ss + 'Win 95';
  if IsWin95OSR2 then
    ss := ss + 'IsWin95OSR2';
  if IsWin98 then
    ss := ss + 'IsWin98';
  if IsWin98se then
    ss := ss + 'IsWin98se';
  if IsWin2000 then
    ss := ss + 'IsWin2000';
  if IsWinXP then
    ss := ss + 'IsWinXP';
  if IsWinME then
    ss := ss + 'IsWinME';
  if IsWinNT then
    ss := ss + 'IsWinNT' + getNTtype;
  if IsWin31 then
    ss := ss + 'IsWin31';
  showMessage(ss);
end;

It came up with IsWin98 for my Win 98SE system.
I cannot tell how it goes with the others.

Thanks for trying.

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RE: Does not work for my Win98se
Ronald Buster (Mar 28 2002 8:55AM)

It should work but if you debug the code from IsWin98se what is the OS.Buildnumber ??

Please respond because these are detection routines from our libraries for my company.

regards,

Ronald
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RE: RE: Does not work for my Win98se
John Stevenson (Mar 29 2002 11:37PM)

To answer your question ...

function IsWin98 : Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=(OS.dwMajorVersion >= 4) and (OS.dwMinorVersion > 0) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS);
  showmessage(IntToStr(OS.dwBuildNumber));  // returns 67766446
end;

function  IsWin98se : Boolean;
var OS :TOSVersionInfo;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@OS,SizeOf(OS));
  OS.dwOSVersionInfoSize:=SizeOf(OS);
  GetVersionEx(OS);
  result:=(OS.dwMajorVersion >= 4) and (OS.dwMinorVersion > 0) and (lo(OS.dwBuildNumber) > 2000) and (OS.dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS);
  showmessage(IntToStr(OS.dwMajorVersion) + ', '
            + IntToStr(OS.dwMinorVersion) + ', '
            + IntToStr(lo(OS.dwBuildNumber)));  // returns 4, 10, 174
end;

Hope that helps.  Let me know if I can assist further.
John


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