How to find out if a system is XP professional or posready?

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I have a system which is posReady but when I looked at systeminfo at "os name" is written "Microsoft windows XP professional". I cannot either find the postReady information in registry.

Now back to my question, How to find out if a system is XP professional or posReady?

Thanks for any help
Merh

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I looked at systeminfo at "os name" is written "Microsoft windows XP professional". I cannot either find the postReady information in registry.

Posted 31-Mar-20 5:43am

merh

Updated 31-Mar-20 7:00am

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MadMyche · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-31T07:01:00

Solution 1

The key to look for is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady; and if it does not exist then most likely you are looking at plain old XP

Reference:
Registry hack enables continued updates for Windows XP | ZDNet[^]

Posted 31-Mar-20 7:01am

MadMyche

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Maciej Los 31-Mar-20 14:34pm

5ed!

MadMyche 31-Mar-20 15:16pm

Thank you