Identify Windows Version using Linux

open C:\Windows\System32\License.rtf

@Olgierd Ungehojer:

I just checked that file on my Win10 Pro machine, and I cannot find any reference to Win 10 in it at all.

I did not read the whole thing (else my brain would now be mush) - I did a search for '10' and the only hits were things like section numbers.

How can you tell the version from that file?

Thanks,

Alan,

C:\Windows\System32\License.rtf  doesn't exist on my XP machines.

you have windows version information for Vista, W7, W8, W8.1, for windows 10 there is no information but you know that is windows 10 then.

Thanks!
Usually it's Windows 10 to begin with but possibly Windows 8 or 7.
Is it [blank/home] or is it Pro?
Which winver?
explorer.exe file version is 10.0.15063.608 but where is a table of these?

There is no table of versions in Windows Explorer, just the current version, so you need to use the VER tool to see what the version is.

If you need a table of Versions and Builds otherwise, you would have to use Google. Windows does not keep a table of versions. Even old files get cleaned up and deleted.

What I need really, is to know which Windows Install DVD to use when dealing with a computer that won't boot.
My DVDs have been created in the normal way and are segregated between "Pro" and "not Pro" and between 32-bit and 64-bit.  
Well, there may be some that do double duty but I never know which ones.

There are other reasons to use a Linux live CD.  So.....

Lots of options - If 'pev' doesn't work for some reason, maybe combine with other options above.