Joel
15th March 2003 16:11 UTC

ok, one question about the registry:

I wanna read this string from Nsis:

ReadRegStr $R6 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" "ProductName" 

It suppose to read the name of the Windows installed... It works in
my machine Windows ME, because display in the output:
"Microsoft Windows ME".

My question is: does Win95/98 has the same reg path? and What about
NT/2000/XP?

Thanks :p

kichik
15th March 2003 16:15 UTC

Use GetWindowsVersion to get the name of the OS:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixB.html#B.5

Joel
15th March 2003 16:28 UTC

already try that ;)
but with this you can simplifly the function with 2 or 3 line code.
what you think?

kichik
15th March 2003 16:36 UTC

On NT you'll have to use:

ReadRegStr $R6 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" "ProductName"

GetWindowsVersion already does that for you, and it was tested on those versions of Windows. You'll have to make sure ProductName is on every Windows version.

Joel
15th March 2003 16:41 UTC

Well... it's suppose, isn't?
or less the user tweak the registry ;)
thanks... :up: :p

Afrow UK
15th March 2003 18:38 UTC

ReadRegStr $R6 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" "ProductName"

Doesn't work on WinXP

-Stuart

Joel
15th March 2003 18:41 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
ReadRegStr $R6 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" "ProductName"

Doesn't work on WinXP

-Stuart

That's way:

ReadRegStr $R6 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" "ProductName"
ReadRegStr $R6 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" "ProductName"
;Only one it's going to have the name of Windows in $R6

kichik
15th March 2003 19:12 UTC

Afrow, NT usually means NT, 2000 and XP, that's why my post applies to XP too.