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Asked: 2026-05-14T19:38:38+00:00

I want to differentiate between Windows XP and Windows 7 in a XML file.

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I want to differentiate between Windows XP and Windows 7 in a XML file. Thought i will use an environment variable for it inside the XML.

However I could not find any system environment variable defined in windows that gives this information.

I see the %OSTYPE% variable but it is only available in Windows 7. It is not defined in XP.

Is there anyway i could do this?

Note that i would like a solution which purely depends on system environment variables. I do not want to create new variables based on executing some command, because i want to use this variable in a XML file.

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  1. Editorial Team

    No exactly preset environment variables but…

    This article is from Microsoft and it refers to a program called gettype.exe, I don’t know if this is a built-in or not. I’m not on Windows to test. Anyway, maybe it helps you.

    There’s also ver which looks built-in – here’s an example script using that.

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