Retrieving OS name

Question

Is there any way to get the OS name the user is currently using?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '10 at 07:57

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You can use

System.Environment

class

Environment.OSVersion.ToString()

See Environment.OSVersion Property

Gets an OperatingSystem object that contains the current platform identifier and version number.

answered Mar 15 '10 at 07:57

rahul

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yeah!!! I'm aware of tat property. but how do i get the name of the OS..?? There is an API - win32_operatingsystem which gives me the OS name. But tat requires WMI service in runnin/stopped mode. Gettin error if the service is in paused state. So help me out wit a method to get the name of the OS if any. – Hanny Mar 15 '10 at 08:02
Sadly, this was removed in `.NET Standard 1.6`. – Jesse Chisholm Mar 22 '17 at 20:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '10 at 08:03

You can use the Environment.OSVersion property.

Version version = Environment.OSVersion;

To decode the version, refer to the wikipedia page of Microsoft Windows Timeline. For example, if the version is 6.1.7600, then it is either a Windows 7 or a Windows Server 2008 R2.

Note that there is no direct API to get the OS name, because a same version can refer to multiple public OS names.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '10 at 21:55

You cannot retrieve the OS name directly. Instead use the Environment.OSVersion.ToString() property to interpret the version & display the OS Name.

This article has a sample that will help you. It covers Win95 to Win7.

All you need to do is write a function that will return the OS name as shown in the above article.

Retrieving OS name

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