Saturday, February 5, 2022

Windows: WinVer -- How to get the current version of Windows

WSL 2.0 and Docker require a minimum version of Windows, hence it is handy to know the current version of Windows installed. There are multiple ways to get the specific version of Windows currently installed. The Windows utility, winver, displays the current version of Windows running on a machine. Winver can be run from PowerShell or a console window (as follows):

 


Referencing Install WSL (see below) in conjunction with winver, WSL 2.0 can be installed on the computer on  which winver was run:



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