Vista Or Not ?

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I want a means to determine whether the perating system is Vista or not, upon
startup of an application. It does not need to check for all possible
permutations of Windows operating systems - just Vista or not.

The problem, however, with using the typical GetVersionEx API is
compatibility mode - which I have never gotten to work for any application,
but I digress.... The OS checker function has to be reliable.

Some possible approaches ?
registry values at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
check for existence of a Vista-only system file in WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
check the version of Notepad.exe
check the version of the VBA reference
Click to expand...

Since I have no clue how to check any of these, what do you make of the
problem ?

Thank you.
BrerGoose
 
Take a look at http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0055.htm at "The Access
Web"

You'll need to add:

If .dwPlatformId = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT And _
.dwMajorVersion = 6 And _
.dwMinorVersion = 0 Then
strOut = "Windows Vista (Version " & _
.dwMajorVersion & "." & .dwMinorVersion & _
") Build " & .dwBuildNumber
If (Len(.szCSDVersion)) Then
strOut = strOut & " (" & _
fTrimNull(.szCSDVersion) & ")"
End If
End If
 
As previously mentioned, the GetVersionEx API is unreliable due to
compatibility mode. Need a means that does not involve GetVersionEx, since
that returns the fake operating system data.

Thank you.
BrerGoose
 
I've not heard of problems with that code. Perhaps you can give more details
about the error you've encountered.
 
Go to any search engine and enter: GetVersionEx Compatibility

You will find various threads of discussion about how compatibility mode
returns the wrong operating system value.

Thank you.
BrerGoose
 
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