Summary

This article describes the ability to detect Windows Home Edition versus the Professional Edition for Windows XP and later.

Synopsis

• This article is for Basic MSI and InstallScript MSI project types.
• This article describes the ability to detect Windows Home Edition versus the Professional Edition for Windows XP and later.

Discussion

There is an MSI property called MsiNTSuitePersonal that is set to 1 only if the VER_SUITE_PERSONAL flag is set in the OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The OSVERSIONINFOEX structure sets the VER_SUITE_PERSONAL flag if Windows Home Edition is installed on the target system. This property can be used in a condition or via InstallScript to check for the Home Edition of Windows XP and later.

Additional Information

• For further information on getting a property value from a script, refer to the Getting and Setting a Property from InstallScript Revenera Knowledge Base article.
• For more information on the MsiNTSuitePersonal property, refer to the following Microsoft article: MsiNTSuitePersonal Property.