You can also retreive the OS from the registry...i'm not 100% sure about win2k though.
Code:
Private Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
Private Const REG_SZ = 1
Private Const REG_BINARY = 3
Private Const REG_DWORD = 4
Private Const ERROR_SUCCESS = 0&
Private Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegSetValueExA" (ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal Reserved As Long, ByVal dwType As Long, lpData As Any, ByVal cbData As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegCreateKeyA" (ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RegOpenKey Lib "advapi32.dll" _
Alias "RegOpenKeyA" (ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey _
As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal Hkey As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RegQueryValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" _
Alias "RegQueryValueExA" (ByVal Hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName _
As String, ByVal lpReserved As Long, lpType As Long, lpData _
As Any, lpcbData As Long) As Long
Private Function getstring(Hkey As Long, strPath As String, strValue As String)
    Dim keyhand As Long
    Dim datatype As Long
    Dim lResult As Long
    Dim strBuf As String
    Dim lDataBufSize As Long
    Dim intZeroPos As Integer
    r = RegOpenKey(Hkey, strPath, keyhand)
    lResult = RegQueryValueEx(keyhand, strValue, 0&, lValueType, ByVal 0&, lDataBufSize)


    If lValueType = REG_SZ Then
        strBuf = String(lDataBufSize, " ")
        lResult = RegQueryValueEx(keyhand, strValue, 0&, 0&, ByVal strBuf, lDataBufSize)


        If lResult = ERROR_SUCCESS Then
            intZeroPos = InStr(strBuf, Chr$(0))


            If intZeroPos > 0 Then
                getstring = Left$(strBuf, intZeroPos - 1)
            Else
                getstring = strBuf
            End If
        End If
    End If
End Function

Public Sub Command1_Click()
Text1.Text = getstring(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion", "ProductName")
End Sub
That's alot of code and you might wanna stick to the GetVersionEx API, but i'm not sure how it would work for Win2k.

Gl,
D!m

PS. have a look around the registry for any other keys that you can retreive that could help you.


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[Edited by Dim on 10-04-2000 at 12:57 AM]