How to find the Windows version from the PowerShell command line

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jrara picture jrara · Sep 7, 2011 · Viewed 430.8k times · Source

How do I find which Windows version I'm using?

I'm using PowerShell 2.0 and tried:

PS C:\> ver
The term 'ver' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify tha
t the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:4
+ ver <<<< 
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (ver:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

How do I do this?

Answer

Jeff Mercado picture Jeff Mercado · Sep 7, 2011

Since you have access to the .NET library, you could access the OSVersion property of the System.Environment class to get this information. For the version number, there is the Version property.

For example,

PS C:\> [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
6      1      7601   65536

Details of Windows versions can be found here.

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