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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?

DavidPostill
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hippietrail
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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:

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codaamok
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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

Multiverse IT
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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.

Seth
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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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