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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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  • The canonical question might be *[Easiest way to find out if user has either Windows 7 or Vista (through telephone support)?](http://superuser.com/questions/401370)* (currently 106 upvotes and 20 answers (highest 138 upvotes)). [Adam Thompson's answer](http://superuser.com/questions/401370/easiest-way-to-find-out-if-user-has-either-windows-7-or-vista-through-telephone/401390#401390) and [Oliver Salzburg's answer](http://superuser.com/questions/401370/easiest-way-to-find-out-if-user-has-either-windows-7-or-vista-through-telephone/401392#401392) have information about the finding the version. – Peter Mortensen Sep 19 '16 at 18:34
  • cont' - That also applies to Windows 10 (?). There must be a rational that reason *[Which version of Windows do I have?](http://superuser.com/questions/1045778/which-version-of-windows-do-i-have)* is closed as a duplicate of *[Easiest way to find out if user has either Windows 7 or Vista (through telephone support)?](http://superuser.com/questions/401370)*. – Peter Mortensen Sep 19 '16 at 18:40

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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 Sep 19 '16 at 13:15
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    @PeterHahndorf if i remember correctly – codaamok Sep 19 '16 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 Sep 19 '16 at 13:50
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    `winver` was available at least from 3.0 Windows version. – pbies Sep 19 '16 at 16:27
  • Or open Paint/Notepad/Wordpad and click About, and the same window will pop up. –  Sep 19 '16 at 23:19
  • winver has been around [since Windows 1.0](http://zdnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/07/23/db9b07b8-1bd3-4451-9365-7bd336f4d7dd/resize/1170x878/6a5511eafc6e9a454add33945466f8ed/cmwindows1-0jul15a.jpg). – Michael Hampton Sep 20 '16 at 03:07
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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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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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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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