Just had to find the operating system of a remote computer so I copied the C:\Windows\System32\config\software.sav (the software hive file is locked by the OS so used the .sav instead) file to Ubuntu 2024 Linux and used hivexget to read the "ProductName"
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | sudo apt-get install libhivex-binhivexget ./software.sav 'Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion'hivexget ./software.sav 'Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion'"SubVersionNumber"="""CurrentBuild"="1.511.1 () (Obsolete data - do not use)""InstallDate"=dword:00000000"ProductName"="Microsoft Windows XP""RegDone"="""RegisteredOrganization"="""RegisteredOwner"="""SoftwareType"="System" |
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