supportedOS ID for windows 11

Paul Gafa 1

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/targeting-your-application-at-windows-8-1

How can I detect windows 11 from a desktop application. I found no ID for it.

Reza-Ameri 16,826 Reputation points

2021-07-06T17:03:15.3+00:00

Windows 11 is new and APIs and other developer references hasn't been released yet.
Are you planning to do it in a .NET application?

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Jenny Feng 14,146 Reputation points

2021-07-07T02:00:37.093+00:00

@Paul Gafa
Hi,
Since Windows 11 is newly released, there seems to be no relevant information at the moment.

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Paul Gafa 1 Reputation point

2021-07-07T06:48:51.97+00:00

Thats exactly the point. Hope some information is shared soon.

Jenny Feng 14,146 Reputation points

2021-07-07T09:41:11.333+00:00

@Paul Gafa
Hi,
While there is no relevant information at this time, I will watching closely to this.
If there is any related update, we will let you know.

Paul Gafa 1 Reputation point

2021-07-07T11:29:08.26+00:00

appreciate the help, thanks

Jenny Feng 14,146 Reputation points

2021-07-21T07:16:14.287+00:00

There may be relevant information until the official version is released.
If we have any updates or any thoughts about this issue, we will keep you posted as soon as possible.
Let's look forward to other reply from forum users.
Your kind understanding is appreciated.

Nageswara Rao Y 26 Reputation points

2021-09-07T09:46:43.613+00:00

Noticed that this is not fixed in Beta build Windows 11 Version 21H2 (OS Build 22000.176). The registry keys such as "CurrentMajorVersionNumber", "ProductName" under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, shows as Windows 10. Please let us know if this will be changed soon? Do we expect these values on Windows 11 future builds or official builds? thanks for your reply.

月王 1 Reputation point

2022-04-08T07:34:39.857+00:00

Hi，
Is there any latest progress on this issue?
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Castorix31 81,461 Reputation points

2021-07-21T07:55:55.307+00:00
I don't have Windows 11, but maybe you can try the methods used on Windows 10 :

By reading values at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
(MS apps like Winver do that)

With RtlGetVersion :
HMODULE hDll = LoadLibrary(TEXT("Ntdll.dll")); typedef NTSTATUS(CALLBACK* RTLGETVERSION) (PRTL_OSVERSIONINFOW lpVersionInformation); RTLGETVERSION pRtlGetVersion; pRtlGetVersion = (RTLGETVERSION)GetProcAddress(hDll, "RtlGetVersion"); if (pRtlGetVersion) { RTL_OSVERSIONINFOW ovi = { 0 }; ovi.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(ovi); NTSTATUS ntStatus = pRtlGetVersion(&ovi); if (ntStatus == 0) { TCHAR wsBuffer[512]; wsprintf(wsBuffer, TEXT("Major Version : %d - Minor Version : %d - Build Number : %d\r\n"), ovi.dwMajorVersion, ovi.dwMinorVersion, ovi.dwBuildNumber); OutputDebugString(wsBuffer); } }
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randomhiker27 21 Reputation points

2021-07-26T20:12:27.19+00:00

Good suggestion, but unfortunately those APIs and registry locations don't provide much to identify Windows 11 as of 22000.100. Major and Minor is 10.0 which is the same as Windows 10.

Build number 22000 is being used for the current iterations of the Windows 11 Insider Builds, but assuming Windows 11 is build >= 22000 seems problematic. Windows 10 Dev Insider builds are already using builds in the 21000s and the ranges of builds may have some overlap between Windows 10 and Windows 11 unless Microsoft says otherwise.

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion there are some things you could try to use to distinguish between Windows 10 and 11 but it seems this area is also a work in progress. The key "ProductName" is reported as "Windows 10 Pro" on my Windows 11 Pro 22000.100 test system.

The only solution I've found that isn't geared for UWP apps is to query the WMI Win32_OperatingSystem object and parse the 'Name' field from the object. WMI is pretty heavy weight from my experience compared to reading a registry key, or using something like the version helpers (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/versionhelpers/nf-versionhelpers-iswindows10orgreater). WMI in Win32 is also just a pain to work with.

A lot companies are going to have to update their software prior to the Windows 11 launch. I hope more information is released on this soon as identification of the OS is required for some business use cases.

Paul Gafa 1 Reputation point

2021-07-28T11:02:08.89+00:00

At the moment I am using the build number. An other alternative is to check if GetTmpPath2 exisits which till now it is not on windows 10.
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triendl.kj 11 Reputation points

2021-10-06T08:38:41.04+00:00

It might be worth giving sysinternal's procmon utility a try, and see e.g. which registry values winver.exe reads.
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Castorix31 81,461 Reputation points

2021-10-06T08:40:26.827+00:00

Winver reads HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
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Jared Plaisted 1 Reputation point

2021-11-10T03:52:13.58+00:00

It would be good to have official guidance from MS on the correct approach.
In the mean time I've found the following works for what I need.

Querying the WMI Win32_OperatingSystem for the "Caption" property which reads "Microsoft Windows 11 Pro" on my test machine.

For a quick test using powershell you can use this command.
get-wmiobject win32_operatingsystem | select Caption

Then combining the above with details like "ReleaseId" or "DisplayVersion" from the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
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