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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