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Author: Chris Gehlker
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Subject: Uname for Windows
On Nov 11, 2003, at 3:13 PM, Don Calfa wrote:

> SET and WINVER from the command line will also tell you some info.
>
> 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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Thanks to Kevin, Bryce and DON!