Question about Windows.

[Vapyrical_Curse]

I am trying to make a program that tells you system information. Thing is I am trying to get two things that I have been unable to do:

• I cannot seem to be able to get the edition of Windows being used. I can get the version just fine, but I cannot get for example, if it's Win XP Pro or Home. My question is where in the registry is this? Is it a environmental variable or an INI file? I know in earlier versions of windows than XP, it is different how to find this, an I don't know if anybody here knows how to go about doing this.

• The Windows product key. I cannot find it in the registry in the normal way, I think I've found it ([color:#CC0000]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId[/color]) but I think it's encrypted, what kind of encryption is this and can I decrypt it using MMF? I've seen plenty of programs that can display this.

I apologize if this is a complex question.

Thank you for any help provided...

[MikeB]

Question 1:

To grab that information for the windows product (Ex: Windows XP Home Edition) I usually get it from:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\prodspec.ini

Load it from an ini object and get the data from there.

If you need service pack information, you can get this from a registry entry, but I can't remember off the top of my head where it is located.

Question 2, I have no clue.

[Vapyrical_Curse]

Thanks for that, that ini had the info I was looking for.

And yes, I do know where to get the SP and such, but weirdly enough the registry does not have the edition info so I was sure that it was somewhere else since when you click on the computer's properties it always tells you the edition. Though I dunno if this is the same for windows after and before XP.

Thank you for the answer!

PS: I know question two is a little tricky, but thank you nonetheless.

[BackStaged]

@MikeB : What is the name on Windows Vista of this Ini-file like?

[MikeB]

Hmmm....they discontinued using this file in vista, there has to be an alternative location.

[BackStaged]

Okay, but, what's Alternative please

[Christian_Wheel]

Here's how I do it... I wrote an Active-X in VB.

http://rghost.net/2657547

You'll need to run the "installocx.bat" first to register the OCX but it should be smooth sailing from there, MFA included in the zip.



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[Christian_Wheel]

Hmm, now that I'm going back and re-reading the thread I realize my ActiveX may not give you information you haven't already gotten from the registry.

Oh well, you or anyone else is welcome to use it.

[BackStaged]

Thanks, i will try it later!