On 08/10/2015 10:56, Laura Creighton wrote: > Hi, I am one of the python.org webmasters. We get people -- often children > who want to install python on their computers but don't know what OS they > are running. Nearly all of these people are running Windows, though I > did get somebody who was running FreeBSD the other day. :) > > Microsoft tells you to do this: > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/which-operating-system > > This is asking an awful lot of the people who are mailing webmaster > and who don't know what OS they are running. It is futile to tell > these people methods to find out what OS version they are running that vary > depending on what OS you have, so I am looking for a thing you can do on > any version of windows which will reliably spit out the correct > answer.
Windows + Pause/Break [*] will produce the system info window showing the Windows version, including Service Pack, and bit-ness, for any recent version of Windows. It does look slightly different on each version, but the Version string/name is always at the top in a section called something like "Windows edition". I'll see if I can get screenshots up somewhere. I've just confirmed this on: WinXP Win 7 Win 8.1 Server 2003 Server 2008 R2 Server 2012 R2 TJG [*] That's using the Windows key like a shift and tapping the key usually labelled Pause/Break. You can get to this window in other ways, but those *do* vary from system to system, while the keyboard shortcut works everywhere AFAIK. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
