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I have switched laptops recently, and I decided I want to make the switch from Windows to Linux (and have gone with Ubuntu for now).

I have the "old" SSD from my previous machine, which has a Windows 7 installation on it. I'm trying to install Windows 7 on VMWare so I can run some of the programs that are only available on Windows (that Wine can't handle).

I also have my Windows 7 key, but I don't know which "edition" it is (Home vs. Premium vs. Ultimate, etc.)

The furthest I've gotten is looking at explorer.exe's attributes to find this:

Product Version: 6.1.7601.17567

But I couldn't find what that means.

I have the SSD mounted and am able to read/access the old filesystem. How can I find out what Windows edition I need to install on VMWare?

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You may use regedit.exe in Wine to Load hive of SOFTWARE registry. It's located at Windows\System32\config\SOFTWARE, then look for value of ProductName and EditionIDunderHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion`

There is also open source offline registry editor for linux at http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/.

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Open the X:\Windows folder on the SSD, and list all .xml files inside which are named after a Windows edition. If there's more than one, consider the highest edition available.

Example:

X:\Windows\HomeBasic.xml
X:\Windows\HomePremium.xml
X:\Windows\Starter.xml

In this case the edition would be Home Premium.

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From the windows website: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/which-operating-system

Click on the Start button

Right click on Computer

Select Properties

Look under Windows edition

You should see "Windows 7 Enterprise" or "Windows 7 Home Premium" ...

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