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Oct 13th, 2021, 08:05 PM
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[RESOLVED] What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
We read Type VS_FIXEDFILEINFO and from its members
.dwFileVersionMSh
.dwFileVersionMSl
.dwFileVersionLSh
.dwFileVersionLSl
we get the values of Major and Minor, etc, and thus we know we are using Windows 10. What are their values for Windows 11?
Last edited by Brenker; Oct 13th, 2021 at 08:10 PM.
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Oct 14th, 2021, 05:20 AM
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Re: What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Which file do you query?
This is from kernel32.dll
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Oct 14th, 2021, 05:34 AM
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Re: What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Read the Registry?
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
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Oct 14th, 2021, 05:41 AM
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Re: What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Which value under this key do you query?
Here is the CurrentVersion value under it
Code:
C:\Users\wqw>reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v CurrentVersion
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
CurrentVersion REG_SZ 6.3
Btw, it's the same as in Win10.
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Oct 14th, 2021, 05:57 AM
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Re: What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Look at "CurrentMajorVersionNumber", "CurrentMinorVersionNumber" and "CurrentBuildNumber"
EDIT: What i could find out, why Win10 returns "6.3" for "CurrentVersion" from that Registry-Folder: 6.3 is the Version for Win8.1, and if you did an Update/Upgrade from 8.1 to 10, this Registry-Entry was stuck.
With Win10 MS introduced above mentioned "new" Reg-Keys
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Oct 14th, 2021, 07:04 AM
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Re: What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Nope!
Code:
C:\Users\wqw>reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v CurrentMajorVersionNumber
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
CurrentMajorVersionNumber REG_DWORD 0xa
C:\Users\wqw>reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v CurrentMinorVersionNumber
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
CurrentMinorVersionNumber REG_DWORD 0x0
C:\Users\wqw>reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v CurrentBuildNumber
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
CurrentBuildNumber REG_SZ 22000
Even the "new" reg-keys are "stuck" to the old OS version 10.
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Oct 14th, 2021, 09:22 AM
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Re: What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Thanks.
I used to call GetVersionAdv()
Code:
Private Type OSVERSIONINFOEX
dwOSVersionInfoSize As Long
dwMajorVersion As Long
dwMinorVersion As Long
dwBuildNumber As Long
dwPlatformId As Long
szCSDVersion As String * 128
wServicePackMajor As Integer
wServicePackMinor As Integer
wSuiteMask As Integer
wProductType As Byte
wReserved As Byte
End Type
Private Declare Function GetVersionAdv Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetVersionExA" (lpVersionInformation As OSVERSIONINFOEX) As Long
I browsed the web a bit, and found that for Windows 11, currently .dwMajorVersion remains to be 10 and .dwMinorVersion remains 0, only .dwBuildNumber changed to 22000 (as wqweto's screenshot shows). Strange.
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Oct 14th, 2021, 12:52 PM
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Re: What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Its not Windows 11 yet, it is a candidate for Windows 11, i.e. Beta version. Once it is fully baked, it will probably be 11.
On the other hand, Microsoft did say they were staying with Windows 10 for the future when it came out. Perhaps Window 11 is Windows 10 and 1. And Windows 12 will be Windows 10 and 2, etc...
May have to wait for Windows 20 before you get a MajorVersion increase.
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Oct 14th, 2021, 01:37 PM
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Re: [RESOLVED] What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
It's actually the final release version of Windows 11 (Enterprise edition) freshly downloaded ISO from MSDN Downloads
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Oct 14th, 2021, 06:12 PM
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Re: [RESOLVED] What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
I ran Windows PC Health Checkup and found that my 4-year old PC ACER-ASPIRE TC7 does not qualify for upgrade to Windows 11:
These are OK:
3001 GB HDD on C:
16 GB Ram
TMP 2.0
This is not:
Processor Intel Core i7-7700 CPU @3.6 GHz
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Oct 15th, 2021, 03:33 AM
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Re: [RESOLVED] What are the Major & Minor values of Windows 11
Seems very few Intel 7-th generation CPUs are included in the Windows 11 supported Intel processors list.
I can see only i7-7800 and i7-7820 (Skylake) models but your 7700 (Kaby Lake) indeed is not supported probably because it's missing AVX-512 instructions support.
More info:
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