Get Windows version in a batch file

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I need to get the OS version with a batch file  I  ve seen a lot of examples online  many uses something like this code    echo off  ver   find  XP   gt  nul if  ERRORLEVEL     0 goto ver xp  if not exist  SystemRoot  system32 systeminfo exe goto warnthenexit  systeminfo   find  OS Name   gt   TEMP  osname txt FOR  F  usebackq delims   tokens 2    i IN   TEMP  osname txt  DO set vers   i  echo  vers    find  Windows 7   gt  nul if  ERRORLEVEL     0 goto ver 7  echo  vers    find  Windows Vista   gt  nul if  ERRORLEVEL     0 goto ver vista  goto warnthenexit   ver 7  Run Windows 7 specific commands here  echo Windows 7 goto exit   ver vista  Run Windows Vista specific commands here  echo Windows Vista goto exit   ver xp  Run Windows XP specific commands here  echo Windows XP goto exit   warnthenexit echo Machine undetermined    exit   The problem is when I execute this on Vista or Windows 7 I get the message      Machine undetermined   Is there any other way to do what I want

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Actually  that one liner doesn t work for windows xp since the ver contains xp in the string  Instead of 5 1 which you want  you would get  Version 5 because of the added token   I modified the command to look like this   for  f  tokens 4-6 delims        i in   ver   do set VERSION   i   j  This will output Version 5 for xp systems which you can use to indentify said system inside a batch file  Sadly  this means the command cannot differentiate between 32bit and 64bit build since it doesn t read the  2 from 5 2 that denotes 64bit XP   You could make it assign   k that token but doing so would make this script not detect windows vista  7  or 8 properly as they have one token less in their ver string  Hope this helps

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The Extract the full version x y z proposed by  olibre looks the most suitable to me  The only additional thing is to take into account other languages except English  as a string  version  may be completely different in a localized Windows  So  here is a batch file tested under Windows XP  7  8 1 and 10  using US and Russian locale   for  f  tokens 4-5 delims      i in   ver   do     if    j       set v   i  else  set v   j    for  f  tokens 1-3 delims       i in    v    do     set OS VER MAJOR   i   set OS VER MINOR   j   set OS BUILD NUM   k   echo Detected OS version   OS VER MAJOR   OS VER MINOR   OS BUILD NUM    The values of  OS VER MAJOR    OS VER MINOR  and  OS BUILD NUM  can be checked for exact version numbers

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Use a reg query and you will get an actual name  reg query  HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion   v ProductName  This would return  Windows 7 Professional    Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard   etc   You can then combine with the ver command to get exact version

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If you are looking to simply show windows version in a batch file such as Windows 10 etc   you can simply use the ver command just type ver and the windows version will be displayed

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These one-line commands have been tested on Windows XP  Server 2012  7 and 10  thank you Mad Tom Vane    Extract version x y in a cmd console  for  f  tokens 4-7 delims        i in   ver   do   if  i  Version  echo  j  k  else  echo  i  j     Extract the full version x y z  for  f  tokens 4-7 delims        i in   ver   do   if  i  Version  echo  j  k  l  else  echo  i  j  k     In a batch script use    instead of single     echo off for  f  tokens 4-7 delims         i in   ver   do  if   i  Version  set v   j   k  else  set v   i   j   echo  v    Version is not always consistent to brand name number  Be aware that the extracted version number does not always corresponds to the Windows name release  See below an extract from the full list of Microsoft Windows versions      10 0  ensp   Windows 10   6 3  emsp   Windows Server 2012   6 3  emsp   Windows 8 1       nbsp         6 2  emsp   Windows 8         emsp         6 1  emsp   Windows 7         emsp         6 0  emsp   Windows Vista   5 2  emsp   Windows XP x64   5 1  emsp   Windows XP   5 0  emsp   Windows 2000   4 10  ensp   Windows 98        Please also up-vote answers from Agent Gibbs and peterbh as my answer is inspired from their ideas

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echo off for  f  tokens 2 delims      a in   systeminfo    find  OS Name    do set OS Name   a for  f  tokens   delims      a in    OS Name    do set OS Name   a for  f  tokens 3 delims      a in    OS Name    do set OS Name   a if   os name     XP  set version XP if   os name     7  set version 7   This will grab the OS name as  7  or  XP   Then you can use this in a variable to do certain commands based on the version of windows

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Here is another variant   some other solutions doesn t work with XP  this one does and was inspired by RLH solution  This script will continue only if it detects the Windows version you want  in this example I want my script to run only in win 7  so to support other windows just change the GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN to GOTO  TESTEDWIN ver   findstr  i  quot 5  0   quot          amp  amp   echo Windows 2000  amp  GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN  ver   findstr  i  quot 5  1   quot          amp  amp   echo Windows XP 32bit  amp  GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN   ver   findstr  i  quot 5  2   quot          amp  amp   echo Windows XP x64   Windows Server 2003  amp  GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN  ver   findstr  i  quot 6  0   quot   gt  nul   amp  amp   echo Windows Vista   Server 2008  amp  GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN  ver   findstr  i  quot 6  1   quot   gt  nul   amp  amp   echo Windows 7   Server 2008R2  amp  GOTO  TESTEDWIN  ver   findstr  i  quot 6  2   quot   gt  nul   amp  amp   echo Windows 8   Server 2012  amp  GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN  ver   findstr  i  quot 6  3   quot   gt  nul   amp  amp   echo Windows 8 1   Server 2012R2  amp  GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN  ver   findstr  i  quot 10  0   quot   gt  nul  amp  amp   echo Windows 10   Server 2016  amp  GOTO  NOTTESTEDWIN   echo  quot Could not detect Windows version  exiting    quot  color 4F  amp  pause  amp  exit  B 1   NOTTESTEDWIN echo  quot This is not a supported Windows version quot  color 4F  amp  pause  amp  exit  B 1   TESTEDWIN REM put your code here

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I know it s an old question but I thought these were useful enough to put here for people searching   This first one is a simple batch way to get the right version   You can find out if it is Server or Workstation  if that s important  in another process   I just didn t take time to add it   We use this structure inside code to ensure compliance with requirements   I m sure there are many more graceful ways but this does always work      -------------------------------------    Check Windows Version    5 0   W2K    5 1   XP    5 2   Server 2K3    6 0   Vista or Server 2K8    6 1   Win7 or Server 2K8R2    6 2   Win8 or Server 2K12    6 3   Win8 1 or Server 2K12R2    0 0   Unknown or Unable to determine    -------------------------------------- echo OS Detection   Starting  ver   findstr  i  5  0    if  ERRORLEVEL  EQU 0   echo  OS   Windows 2000   ver   findstr  i  5  1    if  ERRORLEVEL  EQU 0   echo OS   Windows XP   ver   findstr  i  5  2    if  ERRORLEVEL  EQU 0   echo OS   Server 2003   ver   findstr  i  6  0     gt  nul if  ERRORLEVEL  EQU 0   echo OS   Vista   Server 2008   ver   findstr  i  6  1     gt  nul if  ERRORLEVEL  EQU 0   echo OS   Windows 7   Server 2008R2   ver   findstr  i  6  2     gt  nul if  ERRORLEVEL  EQU 0   echo OS   Windows 8   Server 2012   ver   findstr  i  6  3     gt  nul if  ERRORLEVEL  EQU 0   echo OS   Windows 8 1   Server 2012R2     This second one isn t what was asked for but it may be useful for someone looking     Here is a VBscript function that provides version info  including if it is the Server  vs  workstation    private function GetOSVer        dim strOsName     strOsName          dim strOsVer      strOsVer          dim strOsType     strOsType           Set objWMIService   GetObject  winmgmts    amp    impersonationLevel impersonate      root cimv2        Set colOSes   objWMIService ExecQuery  Select   from Win32 OperatingSystem        For Each objOS in colOSes          strOsName   objOS Caption         strOsVer   left objOS Version  3          Select Case strOsVer             case  5 0      Windows 2000                 if instr strOsName   Server   then                     strOsType    W2K Server                  else                     strOsType    W2K Workstation                  end if             case  5 1      Windows XP 32bit                     strOsType    XP 32bit              case  5 2      Windows 2003  2003R2  XP 64bit                 if instr strOsName   XP   then                     strOsType    XP 64bit                  elseif instr strOsName   R2   then                     strOsType    W2K3R2 Server                  else                     strOsType    W2K3 Server                  end if             case  6 0      Vista  Server 2008                 if instr strOsName   Server   then                     strOsType    W2K8 Server                  else                     strOsType    Vista                  end if             case  6 1      Server 2008R2  Win7                 if instr strOsName   Server   then                     strOsType    W2K8R2 Server                  else                     strOsType    Win7                  end if             case  6 2      Server 2012  Win8                 if instr strOsName   Server   then                     strOsType    W2K12 Server                  else                     strOsType    Win8                  end if             case  6 3      Server 2012R2  Win8 1                 if instr strOsName   Server   then                     strOsType    W2K12R2 Server                  else                     strOsType    Win8 1                  end if             case else     Unknown OS                 strOsType    Unknown          end select     Next      GetOSVer   strOsType end Function      GetOSVer

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The first line forces a WMI console installation if required on a new build  WMI always returns a consistent string of  Version x x xxxx  so the token parsing is always the same for all Windows versions   Parsing from the VER output has variable text preceding the version info  making token positions random   Delimiters are only the     and     characters   The batch addition allows me to easily check versions as  510   XP  up to  10000  for Win10   I don t use the Build value   Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  wmic os get version  value 1 gt nul 2 gt nul  if  errorlevel  equ 0      for  F  tokens 2 3 4 delims       A In   wmic os get version  value    Do          Set  A   MAJ   A          Set  A   MIN   B          Set  A   BLD   C                Set  A   OSVERSION   MAJ  100        Set  A   OSVERSION    MIN  10          endlocal

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On more recent versions  win 7 onwards  you can have powershell do the job for you   for  F   i in   powershell -command   amp      System Environment   OSVersion Version Major     System Environment   OSVersion Version Minor  -join          do set VER   i  goto  VER     6 1 REM specific code for windows 7   10 0 REM specific code for windows 10   see this table for version numbers

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Have you tried using the wmic commands   Try  wmic os get version  This will give you the version number in a command line  then you just need to integrate into the batch file

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So the answers I read here are mostly lengthy  The shortest answer by Alex works good  but not so clean   Best part is that unlike others   it works fast   I came up with my own one-liner   FOR  F  usebackq tokens 3 4 5   i IN   REG query  hklm software microsoft windows NT CurrentVersion   v ProductName   DO echo  i  j  k   Above is for command prompt  To make it work in batch file  replace all   with    to make it look like   FOR  F  usebackq tokens 3 4 5    i IN   REG query  hklm software microsoft windows NT CurrentVersion   v ProductName   DO echo   i   j   k   In my computer  it simply produces Windows 10 Pro

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wmic os get Caption CSDVersion  value   This will do the job

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Here s my one liner to determine the windows version   for  f  tokens 1-9    a in    systeminfo   find  i  OS Name     do  set ver   e  amp  echo  ver     This returns the windows version  i e   XP  Vista  7  and sets the value of  ver  to equal the same

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It s much easier  and faster  to get this information by only parsing the output of ver    echo off setlocal for  f  tokens 4-5 delims       i in   ver   do set VERSION   i   j if   version       10 0  echo Windows 10 if   version       6 3  echo Windows 8 1 if   version       6 2  echo Windows 8  if   version       6 1  echo Windows 7  if   version       6 0  echo Windows Vista  rem etc etc endlocal   This table on MSDN documents which version number corresponds to which Windows product version  this is where you get the 6 1 means Windows 7 information from    The only drawback of this technique is that it cannot distinguish between the equivalent server and consumer versions of Windows

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This will return 5 1 for xp or 6 1 for windows 7  for  f  tokens 4-7 delims         i in   ver   do   if   i    Version set OSVersion   j   k if   i neq Version set OSVersion   i   j

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