Easiest way to find out if user has either Windows 7 or Vista (through telephone support)?
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00:00 Easiest Way To Find Out If User Has Either Windows 7 Or Vista (Through Telephone Support)?
01:10 Accepted Answer Score 140
01:30 Answer 2 Score 58
01:47 Answer 3 Score 112
02:08 Answer 4 Score 60
02:31 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 140
Press CTRL + ALT + DEL it says so in the bottom and most people are aware of this shortcut (especially in corporate environments where people have to press CTRL + ALT + DEL to login).
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ANSWER 2
Score 112
Press Win+Pause (if you can explain to people where those keys are).
For reference, here are screenshots of the resulting dialog under various versions of Windows:
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
ANSWER 3
Score 60
The quickest visual way to tell the difference between Windows Vista and 7 is the taskbar by the clock. In windows 7 there is a box that can be clicked to show the desktop. Vista:
Seven:
This might look different if a user has changed the theme or something weird, but if they can change a theme, hopefully they should be able to manage one of the other methods suggested.
ANSWER 4
Score 58
Ask them to run 'Winver', either by typing it into the start menu 'search programs and files' field, or into the 'Run' dialog (Windows key + R, if it isn't visible on the start menu).
Here's an example of the two different dialog screens:
