How to find the Windows version from the PowerShell command line

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How do I find which Windows version I m using   I m using PowerShell 2 0 and tried   PS C   gt  ver The term  ver  is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet  function  script file  or operable program  Check the spelling of the name  or if a path was included  verify tha t the path is correct and try again  At line 1 char 4   ver  lt  lt  lt  lt         CategoryInfo            ObjectNotFound   ver String      CommandNotFoundException       FullyQualifiedErrorId   CommandNotFoundException   How do I do this

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If you are trying to decipher info MS puts on their patching site such as https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

you will need a combo such as:

$name=(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem).caption $bit=(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem).OSArchitecture $ver=(Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion").ReleaseId Write-Host $name, $bit, $ver

Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit 1703

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If you want to differentiate between Windows nbsp 8 1  6 3 9600  and Windows nbsp 8  6 2 9200  use    Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  Version    to get the proper version   Environment   OSVersion doesn t work properly in Windows nbsp 8 1  it returns a Windows nbsp 8 version

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I searched a lot to find out the exact version  because WSUS server shows the wrong version  The best is to get revision from UBR registry KEY        WinVer   New-Object    TypeName PSObject  WinVer   Add-Member    MemberType NoteProperty    Name Major    Value   Get-ItemProperty -Path  Registry  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE Software Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion  CurrentMajorVersionNumber  CurrentMajorVersionNumber  WinVer   Add-Member    MemberType NoteProperty    Name Minor    Value   Get-ItemProperty -Path  Registry  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE Software Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion  CurrentMinorVersionNumber  CurrentMinorVersionNumber  WinVer   Add-Member    MemberType NoteProperty    Name Build    Value   Get-ItemProperty -Path  Registry  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE Software Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion  CurrentBuild  CurrentBuild  WinVer   Add-Member    MemberType NoteProperty    Name Revision    Value   Get-ItemProperty -Path  Registry  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE Software Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion  UBR  UBR  WinVer

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Unfortunately most of the other answers do not provide information specific to Windows 10   Windows 10 has versions of its own  1507  1511  1607  1703  etc  This is what winver shows   Powershell   Get-ItemProperty  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion   ReleaseId  Command prompt  CMD EXE   Reg Query  HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion   v ReleaseId   See also related question on superuser   As for other Windows versions use systeminfo  Powershell wrapper   PS C   gt  systeminfo  fo csv   ConvertFrom-Csv   select OS   System   Hotfix    Format-List   OS Name               Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise OS Version            6 1 7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 OS Manufacturer       Microsoft Corporation OS Configuration      Standalone Workstation OS Build Type         Multiprocessor Free System Type           x64-based PC System Locale         ru Russian Hotfix s              274 Hotfix s  Installed   01   KB2849697  02   KB2849697  03        Windows 10 output for the same command   OS Name               Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise N 2016 LTSB OS Version            10 0 14393 N A Build 14393 OS Manufacturer       Microsoft Corporation OS Configuration      Standalone Workstation OS Build Type         Multiprocessor Free System Type           x64-based PC System Directory      C  Windows system32 System Locale         en-us English  United States  Hotfix s              N A

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You could also use something like this  by checking the OSVersion Version Major  IF   System Environment   OSVersion Version Major -ge 10   Write-Host  quot Windows 10 or above quot   IF   System Environment   OSVersion Version Major -lt 10   Write-Host  quot Windows 8 1 or below quot

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Get-ComputerInfo   select WindowsProductName  WindowsVersion  OsHardwareAbstractionLayer   returns  WindowsProductName    WindowsVersion OsHardwareAbstractionLayer ------------------    -------------- -------------------------- Windows 10 Enterprise 1709           10 0 16299 371

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Get-ItemProperty -Path  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion  -Name BuildLabEx  BuildLabEx

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As MoonStom says   Environment   OSVersion doesn t work properly on an upgraded Windows nbsp 8 1  it returns a Windows nbsp 8 version   link   If you want to differentiate between Windows nbsp 8 1  6 3 9600  and Windows nbsp 8  6 2 9200   you can use  Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  Version to get the proper version  However this doesn t work in PowerShell 2  So use this    version    null try        version    Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  Version   catch        version    System Environment   OSVersion Version        0   1   2   -f    Major    Minor    Build

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To produce identical output to winver exe in PowerShell v5 on Windows 10 1809    Version   Get-ItemProperty -Path  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion    Version    Version ReleaseId   OS Build    Version CurrentBuildNumber     Version UBR

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This is really a long thread  and probably because the answers albeit correct are not resolving the fundamental question   I came across this site  Version  amp  Build Numbers that provided a clear overview of what is what in the Microsoft Windows world   Since my interest is to know which exact windows OS I am dealing with  I left aside the entire version rainbow and instead focused on the BuildNumber  The build number may be attained either by     Environment   OSVersion Version  Build   or by    Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  buildNumber   the choice is yours which ever way you prefer it   So from there I could do something along the lines of       switch   Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  BuildNumber         6001   OS    W2K8       7600   OS    W2K8R2       7601   OS    W2K8R2SP1           9200   OS    W2K12       9600   OS    W2K12R2       14393   OS    W2K16v1607       16229   OS    W2K16v1709       default    OS    Not Listed      Write-Host  Server system   OS  -foregroundcolor Green   Note  As you can see I used the above just for server systems  however it could easily be applied to workstations or even cleverly extended to support both    but I ll leave that to you    Enjoy   amp  have fun

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Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 OperatingSystem   ForEach-Object -MemberName Caption   Or golfed  gwmi win32 operatingsystem     caption   Result   Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

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Should be easy like this   Get-ComputerInfo    select windowsversion

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This will give you the full and CORRECT  the same version number that you find when you run winver exe  version of Windows  including revision build number  REMOTELY unlike all the other solutions  tested on Windows nbsp 10    Function Get-OSVersion   Param  ComputerName      Invoke-Command -ComputerName  ComputerName -ScriptBlock            all                Get-Childitem c  windows system32      Length   Foreach                 all     Get-ItemProperty -Path    FullName  VersionInfo Productversion                    version    System Environment   OSVersion Version          osversion       version major  0    version build            minor                all         -like   osversion      Foreach                minor     int     -replace                           minor    minor   sort   Select -Last 1          return   osversion  minor

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Windows PowerShell 2 0    windows   New-Object -Type PSObject              Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Caption -Value  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 OperatingSystem  Caption -PassThru              Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Version -Value  Environment   OSVersion Version                     -PassThru   Windows PowerShell 3 0    windows    PSCustomObject        Caption    Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 OperatingSystem  Caption     Version    Environment   OSVersion Version     For display  both versions      0     1    -f  windows Caption   windows Version

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I took the scripts above and tweaked them a little to come up with this    name  Get-WmiObject Win32 OperatingSystem  caption  bit  Get-WmiObject Win32 OperatingSystem  OSArchitecture   vert     Version    ver  Get-ItemProperty  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion   ReleaseId   buildt     Build    build   Get-ItemProperty  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion   BuildLabEx -match    0-9     0-9            matches Values     installd   Get-ComputerInfo -Property WindowsInstallDateFromRegistry  Write-host  installd Write-Host  name   bit   vert   ver   enter code here  buildt   build   installd     To get a result like this   Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit  Version  1709  Build  16299 431   WindowsInstallDateFromRegistry 18-01-01 2 29 11 AM   Hint  I d appreciate a hand stripping the prefix text from the install date so I can replace it with a more readable header

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I am refining one of the answers  I reached this question while trying to match the output from winver exe   Version 1607  OS Build 14393 351     I was able to extract the build string with        Get-ItemProperty -Path  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion  -Name BuildLabEx  BuildLabEx -split                 0  1  -join           Result  14393 351  Updated  Here is a slightly simplified script using regex   Get-ItemProperty  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion   BuildLabEx -match    0-9     0-9            matches Values

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You can use python  to simplify things  works on all Windows versions and all other platforms    import platform  print platform system      returns  Windows    Linux  etc  print platform release      returns for Windows 10 or Server 2019  10   if platform system      Windows       print platform win32 ver      returns  10  10 0 17744  SP0  Multiprocessor Free  on windows server 2019

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Since PowerShell 5   Get-ComputerInfo Get-ComputerInfo -Property Windows    I think this command pretty much tries the 1001 different ways so far discovered to collect system information

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OSVersion    Version  Get-ItemProperty -Path     Env Windir  System32 hal dll  -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue  VersionInfo FileVersion Split   0    On Windows 10 returns  10 0 10586 420  You can then use the variable to access properties for granular comparison   OSVersion Major equals 10  OSVersion Minor equals 0  OSVersion Build equals 10586  OSVersion Revision equals 420   Additionally  you can compare operating system versions using the following  If   Version  OSVersion -ge  Version  6 1                Do Something

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Since you have access to the  NET library  you could access the OSVersion property of the System Environment class to get this information  For the version number  there is the Version property   For example   PS C   gt   System Environment   OSVersion Version  Major  Minor  Build  Revision -----  -----  -----  -------- 6      1      7601   65536   Details of Windows versions can be found here

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Using Windows Powershell  it possible to get the data you need in the following way  Caption    Get-WmiObject -class Win32 OperatingSystem  Caption   ReleaseId    Get-ItemProperty -Path  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion  -Name ReleaseId  ReleaseId   version    Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  version

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To get the Windows version number  as Jeff notes in his answer  use    Environment   OSVersion   It is worth noting that the result is of type  System Version   so it is possible to check for  say  Windows nbsp 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 and later with   Environment   OSVersion Version -ge  new-object  Version  6 1    However this will not tell you if it is client or server Windows  nor the name of the version  Use WMI s Win32 OperatingSystem class  always single instance   for example    Get-WmiObject -class Win32 OperatingSystem  Caption   will return something like     Microsoft   Windows Server   2008 Standard

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solved    copy all the code below   save file as  ps1 run and see the magic   Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 OperatingSystem   ForEach-Object -MemberName Caption   Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  version    -------------comment-------------   -----finding windows version-----    version   Get-CimInstance Win32 OperatingSystem  version  length   version Length  index   version IndexOf       int  windows   version Remove  index  length-2     windows  -----------end------------------   -----------comment-----------------

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HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Update TargetingInfo Installed Client OS rs2 amd64 Version  For Win 10 Client  HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Update TargetingInfo Installed Server OS amd64 Version  For Server OS

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This will give you the full version of Windows  including Revision Build number  unlike all the solutions above    Get-ItemProperty -Path c  windows system32 hal dll  VersionInfo FileVersion   Result   10 0 10240 16392  th1 st1 150716-1608

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Use   Get-WmiObject -class win32 operatingsystem -computer computername   Select-Object Caption

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