SET and WINVER from the command line will also tell you some info.

chris@GCCodeFactory.biz wrote:

> Seems like a curious question for this group but I don't feel like 
> joining a Windows mailing list just to ask it. Besides, it's actually 
> a Samba question in disguise.
>
> I was trying to add some Windows XP computers to a a domain and it 
> just wasn't working. I finally wised up to the fact that these 
> computers came preloaded with some crippled version of Windows called 
> 'Home Edition' even though the salesman had sold them to the poor 
> business owner as office machines. The OS had been customized with HP 
> splash screens and whatnot to the point where it was only obvious that 
> it was something like XP. I didn't really know that MS deliberately 
> made something crappier than Windows.
>
> So how does one tell just by looking what version of Windows is 
> running on a machine?
>
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