ver (command)

The winver command on Windows 7.

In computing, ver is a command in various DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe and 4DOS/4NT. It prints the name and version of the operating system or the command shell.

Some versions of MS-DOS support an undocumented /r switch, which will show the revision as well as the version. The command is also available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox.

Microsoft Windows also includes a GUI variant of the command called winver, which shows the Service Pack installed (if any) as well as the version.

Windows also includes the setver command that is used to set the version number that the MS-DOS subsystem (NTVDM) reports to a DOS program.

Examples

N.B. - Returned strings will vary with language, (e.g. Dutch will return 'Versie' rather than 'Version')

4DOS

C:\JPSOFT\4DOS>ver

4DOS 7,50 DOS 5,50

OS/2

[C:\]ver

The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00

[C:\]ver /r

The Operating System/2 Version is 4.50 Revision 14.086

DOSBox

Z:\>ver

DOSBox version 0.72. Reported DOS version 5.0.

Windows NT

C:\WINNT\ver

Windows NT. Version 4.0

Windows 2000

C:\WINNT\ver

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]

Windows XP

C:\>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

Windows XP 64bit

C:\Users\root>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]

Windows Server 2003

C:\Users\root>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]

Windows Vista

C:\Users\root>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]

Windows Server 2008

C:\Users\root>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]

Windows Server 2008 R2

C:\Users>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Windows 7

C:\Users>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Windows 7 SP1

C:\Users>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

See also

• List of DOS commands
• List of Unix programs
• uname

References

• Microsoft TechNet Ver article