Determining Windows Edition

Created by Logan Bray, Modified on Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM by Logan Bray

Windows 11

Windows editions are critical to ensuring that your business can utilize all management functions built into Windows. Feature such as Active Directory may be disabled on Home versions of Windows, meaning an upgrade may be required. Follow the below steps to determine which edition of Windows is installed on your machine: 

  1. Select Start > Settings > System > About
  2. Under Windows specifications, check which edition and version of Windows your device is running.

All Windows Versions

  1. Press the Windows Key + R on they keyboard to open Run
  2. Enter winver in the window that appears, then click OK
  3. Locate the edition within the first paragraph of the window


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