Windows 10: How do I know when Win 10 has updated to a new edition?

Hi Newmaven

windows Key + X, click on system. If your build is 1703 then you have it. 1607 is Anniversary update.

Ken

It used to be that (almost) every application had a Help menu item, and under Help, an About menu item. Alt+h, a brought this dialog up like a Winver screen without license or expiration date.

Here's Regedit's Help, About dialog on the right.

My solution is to use BGInfo from Microsoft Windows Sysinternals with a string made from several custom fields from the registry the BGInfo editor on the left and the display string in the lower right:


I could schedule the Compaq.bgi configuration script to run at startup, but I just run it when I know there's been an update after patch Tuesday. When multibooting, it's worth knowing exactly which version your'e in - the insiders have watermarks, but I like to know which user I am logged in as and computer name, 64-or 32-bit the version number etc. especially with several machines on the go.