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My underpowered netbook which came with Windows 10 never managed to succeed in updating itself to the first major upgrade to Windows 10 at about the end of 2015. (My similarly underpowered Windows tablet had no problem with it.)

Now it seems to be installing updates quite often onto itself, so I'm always interested to see if it's managed to update to a newer Windows 10 or only installs the smaller patches, device driver updates, etc.

I thought I could see this info by clicking on the message that tells me "updates were installed", but now I don't see anything there.

I'm quite surprised that by using the "Search the web and Windows" or by Googling I can't find a straightforward way to see the OS version info. Even the System Information page only tells me "Windows 10". What very obvious thing am I missing?

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Go to the start menu, click the settings cog. Click on System, then About in the left column at the bottom. enter image description here

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  • Aha this was the specific place I was thinking of and then couldn't find when I needed it. Thanks!
    – hippietrail
    Commented Sep 20, 2016 at 11:44
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  1. Windows key + R
  2. Type "winver"

I've known winver to be the standard "get version number" utility since XP IIRC

Edit some comments suggest that winver has been around since at least 3.0

Example output:

enter image description here

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    What is IIRC? winver.exe exists on my Windows NT 3.5 from 1994 and possibly in the very first NT 3.1 from 1993 as well.
    – Peter Hahndorf
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 13:15
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    @PeterHahndorf if i remember correctly
    – codaamok
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 13:16
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    I knew it would be super obvious, thanks! Somehow I thought I had seen it in newer places in Windows but this is of course perfect (-:
    – hippietrail
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 13:50
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    winver was available at least from 3.0 Windows version.
    – pbies
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 16:27
  • Or open Paint/Notepad/Wordpad and click About, and the same window will pop up.
    – user483996
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 23:19
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Click on Start => Run and type winver and hit enter or run a command line window and type winverand hit enter. It will give you a more detailed version number (including the build).

Another option would be to press Win+R to bring it up or the task manager which still should have a run option as well and run winver using that dialog. Alternatively just search for winver in the C:\Windows directory (using a file search, not manually) or check this HowToGeek article which also has some more solutions.

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  • I don't know about you but I don't see the Run utility in the Win10 start menu any more.
    – codaamok
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 11:52
  • Keep looking it's there
    – Ramhound
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 12:00
  • @adampski edited the answer to give some more options.
    – Seth
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 12:28
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And let's not forget about the command line version. Type, the following in the Search the web and Windows text box:

cmd /k ver
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    cmd alone gives version number also.
    – pbies
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 16:28
  • Or specifically, just ver. cmd /k starts a CMD session, runs ver and does not close the session. So if you were to use it on a batch file, you should just use ver.
    – Kroltan
    Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 22:23

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