In general, a computer owner does not need to know many things until he has to change something in the hardware or software of the PC. One of these things is information about which version of the operating system is installed on it. However, when installing, for example, a driver on new hardware or an antivirus program, this information becomes necessary in order to correctly select the version of the product to be installed.
Necessary
Computer with Windows OS
Instructions
Step 1
There are many ways to find out about your Windows version, but the location of this information may vary depending on the version. The most universal, perhaps, can be considered the use for this purpose of a standard utility built into the operating system called dxdiag. To run it, open a Windows Command Prompt window.
Step 2
To get to the command line, press the key combination Win + R. You can call it in other ways, but these methods, again, differ depending on the version of the operating system. So, in Windows XP in the Start menu there is a Run item, when you click on it, a command line appears. In Windows 7, the file and program search bar located at the bottom of the same Start menu can be used as a command line. Use any of the above methods and activate the command line.
Step 3
At the command prompt, type dxdiag. At the same time, make sure that the upper case is not turned on (so that the letters are small) and the English keyboard layout is selected. To change the keyboard layout, in the lower right part of the screen, click on the abbreviation of the active language (if Russian is active, these are two large letters RU) and select the EN option in the drop-down list.
Step 4
After you type the required command in the command line, press Enter. You will see the diagnostic utility window open. Strictly speaking, its direct purpose is to obtain detailed information about the multimedia properties of the system and version, as well as the settings of the DirectX package, but information about the OS version is also included in this list.
Step 5
In the window that appears, find the line "Operating system". This line contains the full name of the OS. In addition, it indicates the bitness (32 or 64 bits), as well as the build version - the serial number of the master disk from which the installation was made. Most likely, you will not need the assembly version, but write down or remember the name of the OS and its bit depth.
