[issue19143] Finding the Windows version getting messier

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

According to

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17399302/how-can-i-detect-windows-8-1-in-a-desktop-application

another strategy is to directly read the version out of the registry, from

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
(values CurrentVersion, CurrentBuild)

Not sure where to get service pack information from, though.

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