gugaliashashank
18th September 2008 14:42 UTC

Unable to read windows version for vista
Hi All,

I am reading the following registry entry

"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" CurrentVersion

using the following command in Vista OS to chekc whether its Vista or not.

ReadRegStr $R0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" CurrentVersion

but $R0 always return 5.1, which means XP

I checked currentVersion in the registry its 6.0 only not 5.1

I have test this in Vista Ultimate as wwell as Vista Home
I am using NSIS 2.39


One more problem which i faced in Vista is even if i set SetShellVarContext current, the createshortcut are creating shortcuts for all user instead of current user.

Anders
18th September 2008 14:47 UTC

use RequestExectionLevel in your installer

gugaliashashank
19th September 2008 06:02 UTC

I used "RequestExecutionLevel admin" but still i am getting the version as 5.1

I agree that now i am not facing the second problem that is createshortcut

gugaliashashank
19th September 2008 06:23 UTC

Just to add that i also used
Winver.nsh
${if} ${IsWinXp}
${if} ${IsWinVista}

it returns true for Xp in Vista OS

gugaliashashank
19th September 2008 07:22 UTC

I tried using register.dll also , still it did not works

I tried to read
ReadRegStr $R0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" "ProductName"

but instead of returing windows vista (TM) Home Basics
it returns Microsoft Windows XP

Anders
19th September 2008 13:35 UTC

check the properties of your .exe and make sure its not set to compatibility mode

pbingel
19th September 2008 20:23 UTC

Not sure if this will help or not.

nsExec::ExecToStack '"$SYSDIR\cmd.exe" /c systeminfo |find "OS Name:"'
Pop $0
Pop $1
MessageBox MB_OK "$1"