Check for Windows 7 / Seven

kando234
24th April 2009 08:58 UTC

Check for Windows 7 / Seven
Hi,

is there any way to check if user is running Windows 7 ?

Thanks
and greets
kando

Anders
24th April 2009 09:06 UTC

WinVer.nsh will give you the version number, so check for >=6.1

kando234
24th April 2009 09:46 UTC

How to do that with WinVer.nsh ?

It offers me only the following functions
and not getting the version number to compare it ?


; AtLeastWin<version> checks if the installer is running on Windows version at least as specified.
; IsWin<version> checks if the installer is running on Windows version exactly as specified.
; AtMostWin<version> checks if the installer is running on Windows version at most as specified.
;
; <version> can be replaced with the following values:
;
;   95
;   98
;   ME
;
;   NT4
;   2000
;   XP
;   2003
;   Vista
;   2008

Animaether
24th April 2009 16:33 UTC

It's slightly hidden away / not documented. Near the bottom of WinVer.nsh are the bits you'll want to peek at. Example:


${WinVerGetMajor} $0
${WinVerGetMinor} $1
${WinVerGetBuild} $2
${WinVerGetServicePackLevel} $3
MessageBox MB_OK "$0.$1.$2 SP$3"

kichik
10th May 2009 14:59 UTC

Windows 7 has settled on 6.1? If so, we should add it to WinVer.nsh.

Animaether
10th May 2009 17:00 UTC

The Release Candidate, Build 7100, is version 6.1, yes.

For confirmation.. download and install, or poke at a number of websites who have done so and peruse screenshots of the 'about screen' :)

There was some talk of that 6.1 not being the case if they ever got around to implementing minwin but.. yeah

Anders
10th May 2009 21:01 UTC

minwin was never a product, closest you get is server core

We don't know the build number until RTM, but using 6.1.0000 for now would probably work

Pawel
10th May 2009 21:16 UTC

Originally posted by Animaether
The Release Candidate, Build 7100, is version 6.1, yes.

For confirmation.. download and install, or poke at a number of websites who have done so and peruse screenshots of the 'about screen' :)

Here is a screenshot. it is 6.1 for now.
http://shup.com/Shup/156791/Untitled.png
-Pawel

th_mi
11th May 2009 12:14 UTC

Originally posted by PepeSoft
Here is a screenshot. it is 6.1 for now.
[Image]
-Pawel

And it will be 6.1 later in W7. See here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...33(VS.85).aspx
(MSDN documentation "OSVERSIONINFOEX Structure" of function "GetVersionEx")

Even if this piece of software is called "Windows Seven" the internal version number is "6.1" :D

kichik
11th May 2009 12:39 UTC

That MSDN page also says Windows 2008 R2 has the same version number. Need to work around that one like we worked around Vista and 2008. Anders, care to handle this?

Anders
11th May 2009 17:47 UTC

for those that can't wait for the next release, get it from http://nsis.svn.sourceforge.net/view...ude/WinVer.nsh

kichik
11th May 2009 18:19 UTC

Also, if anyone has Windows 7 and/or Windows Server 2008 R2, please add it to the WinVer test thread.

Pawel
16th May 2009 14:18 UTC

Originally posted by kichik
Also, if anyone has Windows 7 and/or Windows Server 2008 R2, please add it to the WinVer test thread.

Kichik,
I want to test it, but what tool should I use?
Should I use WinVer, from that thread? Is it updated to support win7?
-Pawel

kichik
16th May 2009 15:18 UTC

The tool from the thread is version independent. The version attached there should work fine on Windows 7 as well.

jweinraub
8th June 2009 16:51 UTC

I can't seem to get Windows 7 to even show up with I pop the variable. I am using the latest WinVer.nsh that includes Win7 routines.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Please see my code.


Function .onInit

GetVersion::WindowsName
Pop $R0

;${If} $R1 == "64"
;  Goto no64
;${EndIf}
${If} $R0 == "XP"
  Goto xp
${ElseIf} $R0 == "XP x64"
  Goto go_away
${ElseIf} $R0 == "2000"
  Goto go_away
${ElseIf} $R0 == "Server 2003"
  Goto go_away
${Elseif} $R0 == "Server 2003 R2"
  Goto go_away
${Elseif} $R0 == "Vista"   
  Goto vista
${Else}
  Goto error
${EndIf}
; i suppose i do need to add a win7 block?  will there be multiple SKUs like Vista?


xp:
   GetVersion::WindowsType
   Pop $R0
   ${If} $R0 == "Professional"
   ${OrIf} $R0 == "Tablet PC Edition"
     Goto go_away
   ${Else}
     Goto non_professional
   ${EndIf}

non_professional:
  MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_TOPMOST|MB_DEFBUTTON2 \
  "The XYZ-Soft software has not been tested on, and is not supported on Windows XP $R1.$\r$\n$\r$\nXYZ-Tek cannot \
  provide technical support for this installation.$\r$\n$\r$\nDo you want to continue?" \
  IDYES go_away IDNO done
    
vista:
   GetVersion::WindowsType
   Pop $R1

     ${If} $R1 == "Home Basic Edition"
         MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_TOPMOST|MB_DEFBUTTON2 \
         "The XYZ-Soft software has not been tested on, and is not supported on Windows $R0 $R1.$\r$\n$\r$\nXYZ-Tek cannot \
         provide technical support for this installation.$\r$\n$\r$\nDo you want to continue?" \
         IDYES go_away IDNO done
     ${ElseIf} $R1 == "Home Premium Edition"
         MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_TOPMOST|MB_DEFBUTTON2 \
         "The XYZ-Soft software has not been tested on, and is not supported on Windows $R0 $R1.$\r$\n$\r$\nXYZ-Tek cannot \
         provide technical support for this installation.$\r$\n$\r$\nDo you want to continue?" \
        IDYES go_away IDNO done
      ${ElseIf} $R1 == "Starter Edition"
         MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_TOPMOST|MB_DEFBUTTON2 \
         "The XYZ-Soft software has not been tested on, and is not supported on Windows $R0 $R1.$\r$\n$\r$\nXYZ-Tek cannot \
         provide technical support for this installation.$\r$\n$\r$\nDo you want to continue?" \
         IDYES go_away IDNO done
      ${Else}
         Goto go_away
      ${EndIf}

error:
  ; generic block for the rest of OS's... 95,98,Me,7, etc. ??? 
  MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_TOPMOST|MB_DEFBUTTON2 \
  "The XYZ-Soft software has not been tested on, and is not supported on Windows $R0 $R1.$\r$\n$\r$\nXYZ-Tek cannot \
  provide technical support for this installation.$\r$\n$\r$\nDo you want to continue?" \
  IDYES go_away IDNO done

done:
   Quit

kichik
8th June 2009 17:15 UTC

You are using GetVersion plug-in and not WinVer.nsh. Use:

!include WinVer.nsh

${If} ${IsWin7}
  MessageBox MB_OK 7
${ElseIf} ${IsWin2000}
  MessageBox MB_OK 2000
# etc... ${ElseIf}...
${EndIf}

jweinraub
8th June 2009 18:46 UTC

oops,
thanks! (i think i used winver at one point in my life but switched i guess, i think my old codebase has it).

jweinraub
9th June 2009 14:46 UTC

Okay.. I got a couple of more questions.

In GetVersion they have the ability to find home edition detection (probably why i used it to begin with), is WinVer.nsh going to detect the different SKUs of Home/Vista/7 (Home/Pro/Home Basic/Ultimate/...) Is there a way to detect that?

Also, I like to detect anything below Win 95 (Windows 1.0 - 3.11). is there a way to detect < 95? (I know GetVersion does for example)

Since I know GetVersion more, is my logic below correct? How do I get the version to display in the second message?


Function .onInit

; Give warning about Windows 7

${If} ${IsWin7}
  MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_TOPMOST|MB_DEFBUTTON2 \
  "The blah software has not been tested on, and is not supported on Windows 7.$\r$\n$\r$\nFoobar Industries cannot \
  provide technical support for this installation.$\r$\n$\r$\nDo you still want to continue with the installation?" \
  IDYES go_away IDNO done
${ElseIf} ${AtLeastWin95}
     ${And} ${AtMostWinME}
       MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP "Windows -version- is not supported by the blah software." IDOK  ; Anything below 2000 throw error
       Quit
; what about below 95 (Win 1 - 3.11)
${EndIf}


done:
   Quit

go_away:
; ...

Thanks so much!

Anders
9th June 2009 15:12 UTC

lol, Win v1.

AFAIK, NSIS does not work on anything below v4

jweinraub
9th June 2009 16:18 UTC

I thought nsis did work with < 4.
I thought it can with 3.1 at least, though i never verified it. i thought i saw it in some forum.

Anders
9th June 2009 16:32 UTC

Win 3.1 is 16bit, you would have to install Win32s on there

jweinraub
9th June 2009 20:20 UTC

Okay but how do I determine the windows version using winver in the output?


${ElseIf} ${AtLeastWin95}
     ${And} ${AtMostWinME}
       MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP "Windows -version- is not supported by the blah software." IDOK  ; Anything below 2000 throw error
       Quit
${EndIf}

That is generic code, so do i need to make an if for each version?

I can't say : MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP "Windows ${WINVER} is .. " .. ?

jweinraub
26th June 2009 14:54 UTC

My above code doeswnt seem to work. I tried changing And to AndIf and made no difference other than it allowed me to compile it.

I am unable to execute the installer.

Yathosho
27th July 2009 13:47 UTC

it would be lovely, if WinVer could make a check if the user is running a 64-bit system (whether its xp, vista or win7 etc.). something like ${Is64bit}/${Is32bit} would be very helpful!

Anders
27th July 2009 14:43 UTC

Originally posted by Yathosho
it would be lovely, if WinVer could make a check if the user is running a 64-bit system (whether its xp, vista or win7 etc.). something like ${Is64bit}/${Is32bit} would be very helpful!

x64.nsh

didava
6th September 2013 22:39 UTC

hi

for win 8 & xp

Is this true?

${If} ${IsWin8}

MessageBox MB_OK 8

${ElseIf} ${IsXP}

MessageBox MB_OK XP

# etc... ${ElseIf}...

${EndIf}

???????

didava
6th September 2013 23:33 UTC

[QUOTE]

var isWindowsXP
var IsWindows7
var IsWindows8

------

Version::IsWindowsXP
Pop $isWindowsXP
${If} $isWindowsXP == "1"
Goto XP
${EndIf}

Version::IsWindows7
Pop $IsWindows7
${If} IsWindows7 == "1"
Goto WINDOWS7
${EndIf}

Version::IsWindows8
Pop $IsWindows8
${If} IsWindows8 == "1"
Goto WINDOWS8

${ElseIf}
MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP|MB_TOPMOST "$(OS_NOT_S)"
QUIT
${EndIf}

WINDOWS8:

WINDOWS7:

xp: