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I'm reporting a software error with the platform information which is provided in in Winver.exe.

But I can't highlight the text and copy it (this is in Windows XP SP2).

Is there a registry key or somewhere else I can grab the build info?
I've tried PsInfo from Sysinternals but it doesn't provide all the build and sp info.

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If you just want the OS info, you can run all sorts of commands from the command line: WMIC has many :

WMIC OS Get Name

Returns:

Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise |C:\Windows|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2

You can also use 

wmic OS get /?

to get all your choices for that WMIC class.

systeminfo | Findstr /i "OS"

Will get you:

Host Name: MYCOMPUTERNAME OS Name:
Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise OS Version: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation OS Configuration: Member Workstation OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free BIOS Version: Dell Inc. A08, 10/18/2011 [04]: Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter

You can then either pipe this to text, or copy from the command line as I did above.

Another attempt to get the what appears to be service pack information:

Run:

wmic os get * /value > C:\WMICOS.txt

the search that file for the string you want.

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  • All of these provide some of the info, but not all. In XP there is a specific term after the build# ending in _rtm.040803-2158 that is not in any of the above. Thanks for the info, though, learnt something new.
    – MandoMando
    May 3, 2013 at 16:17
  • @MandoMando added another suggestion to the end
    – Austin T French
    May 3, 2013 at 16:42
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    @MandoMando: The build number's what's really important. The build date and time (i.e. August 3, 2004 @ 9:58PM) should be same for all copies of the SP2 RTM release, so unless you have some sort of leaked release there's no point bothering too much about it.
    – Karan
    May 4, 2013 at 22:17
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A handy but ill-documented feature in most versions of Windows is that pressing Ctrl-c while the focus is on a dialog will copy the text in the dialog. I'm not sure whether it works with the dialog produced by winver.exe, but I would be surprised if it didn't; try hitting Ctrl-c in that dialog and then Ctrl-v in a Notepad window, and see what you get.

UPDATE Color me surprised; it doesn't work. Good job, Microsoft!

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    Lol and winver executed from the command line logs nothing but opens a gui dialog..... Now why oh why dear MS would we be executing the command from the command line if we didn't want the output to go there as well?
    – Stijn de Witt
    Jul 26, 2016 at 14:44

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