>>Yeah, I saw that. I was wondering what that "arbitrary additional information" was. I'm going to take a look on this Win98 SE box and see what it returns. Just curious is all.
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>I think the term "crapola" comes to mind < g >; it is a string built from the SPs and patches by numnber applied through WindowsUpdate as I remeber.

Well, under 98 that's ("crapola") exactly what it is. Further, there's no corresponding registry key to the one you mentioned for NT. So, I imagine, that for Win 98, you almost have to rely on GetVersionEx() to differentiate between, Win 95, Win 95 OSR1, Win 98 and Win 98SE.