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July 24, 2011 at 15:17:54
Specs: Windows 7
Hi everyone,

I hope there is someone who can help solve this because my Dos scripting is pretty basic and I have not been able to create or find a solution so far despite trying for some hours.

I want to extract the Windows version from the registry which can be done using the following instruction, however it includes a lot of extra text which is not wanted

reg.exe query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v ProductName

This gives the following text

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
ProductName REG_SZ Windows 7 Ultimate

What I want is to extract the windows version after REG_SZ, trimming any spaces so that just the Windows version is returned or available in a variable. Therefore what will extract just the Windows version, be it Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7?


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#1
July 24, 2011 at 18:09:02
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Try this, it works on my system Win XP where the Reg.exe is ver 3.0 and the output consists of 3 lines of text plus two blank lines..

@echo off
cls

for /f "skip=4 tokens=1-2*" %%1 in ('reg.exe query "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion" /v Productname') do (
    echo %%3
    )


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#2
July 25, 2011 at 17:24:27
That is strange, I am using Win XP and I get 2 text lines as shown above plus one blank line output by the query. Reg.exe is v3.0 on mine too.

Using the registry is meant to be a more reliable and faster method of finding the Operating system than using systeminfo.

Thank you, nevertheless despite the apparent difference in output, it still works very well.


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July 25, 2011 at 19:57:37
Mmmm. Thanks for the info. I reran the query on XP Pro (Corporate) and still get 4 lines before the required info, lines 1 and 3 are blank. See http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/...

Thanks for coming back to report your success.

Regards.

Wahine.


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