Environment Variable to determine the OS type (Windows XP, Windows 7)
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I want to differrntiate 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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