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Where is the OS version file in XP?
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Name: Geralds Mod
Date: September 6, 2008 at 14:41:04 Pacific
Subject: Where is the OS version file in XP?OS: Windows XP SP3CPU/Ram: Quad Q9300 G.Skill DDR2 1Model/Manufacturer: Custom |
Comment: I want to try to find the file in Windows XP SP3 that holds the OS version.
I would like to try and change the OS version that you see in dxdiag to Windows Vista. Thanks, if you know.
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Response Number 1
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Reply: (edit)If you're running XP, you can't just try and arbitrarily "change" the OS. Just out of curiosity, why do you want to do this? "So won’t you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown
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Name: StuartS
Date: September 6, 2008 at 15:44:21 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)So you want to fool something into thinking it is running on Vista instead of XP. What a brilliant way to kill a system stone dead. The information is not stored in a file it is stored in the registry here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion Change this and applications will think they are running on Vista when in fact it is still Windows XP. Stuart
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