Getting windows version using c++

[Shammikit]

im trying to get the windows OS version (eg: professional,ultimate,home,etc) using c++. i have already done some searching but the only thing that i came across are codes where people would write some if conditions and printf statements like: printf("windows 10"). im trying to get the entire windows name including its version like (windows 10 home). how can i achieve this

[zwirek2201]

1 hour ago, Shammikit said:

im trying to get the windows OS version (eg: professional,ultimate,home,etc) using c++. i have already done some searching but the only thing that i came across are codes where people would write some if conditions and printf statements like: printf("windows 10"). im trying to get the entire windows name including its version like (windows 10 home). how can i achieve this

Why is it a problem to get major and minor version and choose the name on your version name based on that? Also, what if OS is not Windows?

[Unimportant]

5 hours ago, Shammikit said:

im trying to get the windows OS version (eg: professional,ultimate,home,etc) using c++. i have already done some searching but the only thing that i came across are codes where people would write some if conditions and printf statements like: printf("windows 10"). im trying to get the entire windows name including its version like (windows 10 home). how can i achieve this

It can be done with WMI, getting data from the Win32_OperatingSystem class

 

Here's an example, using c++: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390423(VS.85).aspx

Extremely convoluted, for such as simple task, in the usual microsoft way.

[Shammikit]

10 hours ago, zwirek2201 said:

Why is it a problem to get major and minor version and choose the name on your version name based on that? Also, what if OS is not Windows?

at the moment im trying for windows only. about the major and minor version, it doesn't tell what version of the OS u have right?(like if we have PRO, ultimate or home version) from what i saw using major and minor we have to manually compare the major and minor and print the OS like: if major is 6 and minor is 0 then print windows 8. i tried to get major and minor and i got major 6 and minor as 2. i found this table on stack overflow  which had all majors and minors and i saw it had major 6 and minor 2 for windows 8 and windows 10 is major 10 and minor 0 according to that table. im here running windows 10. how is that possible

[Shammikit]

6 hours ago, Unimportant said:

It can be done with WMI, getting data from the Win32_OperatingSystem class

 

Here's an example, using c++: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390423(VS.85).aspx

Extremely convoluted, for such as simple task, in the usual microsoft way.

thanks this helped