| Private Declare Function GetVersionEx Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetVersionExA" (lpVersionInformation As OSVERSIONINFO) As Long Private Type OSVERSIONINFO dwOSVersionInfoSize As Long dwMajorVersion As Long dwMinorVersion As Long dwBuildNumber As Long dwPlatformId As Long szCSDVersion As String * 128 ' Maintenance string for PSS usage End Type The GetVersion Api just takes one parameter of type OSVERSIONINFO. The OSVERSIONINFO structure will contain all the details about the OS after GetVersionApi has been successfully executed. The parameters of OSVERSIONINFO are dwMajorVersion which gives info about the major version of the OS .This value is 3 for win Nt 3.51, 4 for win95/98/me and win nt4 and it is 5 for win2k. dwMinorVersion ,another parameter to differentiate the OS further .It is 0 for win 95,10 for win 98 ,98 for win ME,0 for win2k ,0 for win nt4 and 51 for win nt 3.51 dwPlatformId .This is an important parameter which helps in further differentiating the varios win OS.It is 1 for win 95/ 98/ME ,and 2 for win NT Once Declared we can use this in the following way Dim os As OSVERSIONINFO os.dwOSVersionInfoSize = Len(os) 'Assign some size to store the received information Dim m As Long Dim mv As Long Dim pd As Long Dim miv As Long m = GetVersionEx(os) 'The actual API call to GetVersionEx mv = os.dwMajorVersion pd = os.dwPlatformId miv = os.dwMinorVersion If pd = 2 Then MsgBox " OS is Windows NT" & mv & "." & miv If pd = 1 Then If miv = 10 Then MsgBox " OS is Windows 98 " If miv = 0 Then MsgBox " OS is Windows 95 " If miv = 90 Then MsgBox " OS is Windows ME " End If This can be quite useful if you are making OS specific Applications. Send your comments to venky_dude@yahoo.com. .Visit my homepage for some cool VBcodes. |
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