Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Identifying the Operating System

Returns the name and version number of the operating system installed on a computer.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
    Wscript.Echo objOperatingSystem.Caption & " " & _
        objOperatingSystem.Version
Next

This is a VB Script, this can be used by saving the file in .vbs file