Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 as a requirement

[srowe]

How would I go about making Win2K SP4 a requirement. I can see where I can set the OS requirement to Win2K, but we want to narrow the requirement more than that. Is this possible?

[sinan]

Sure, just use the Get System Settings command to obtain the service pack level - this will take just a little bit of custom scripting.

[srowe]

I am not having any luck finding how to write the code to check whether a user has Service Pack 4 if they are running my InstallAware installer on Windows 2000.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,

- Steve Rowe
PhotoWorks, Inc.

[K-ballo]

All you have to do is change to Code View, and at the beggining of the file and change it to look exactly like this:

// Check setup pre-requisites
Get System Setting Windows 2000 into CHECKSYSTEM
If Variable CHECKSYSTEM not Equals TRUE
MessageBox: $TITLE$ Setup Error, This product requires at least Windows 2000.$NEWLINE$$NEWLINE$Setup cannot continue.
Terminate Installation
end

Get System Settings Service Pack 4 into CHECKSP
If Variable CHECKSP not Equals TRUE
MessageBox: $TITLE$ Setup Error, This product requires at least Service Pack 4.$NEWLINE$$NEWLINE$Setup cannot continue.
Terminate Installation
end

[sinan]

Actually, this needs an additional check for Windows XP, so the SP check is performed only if Windows XP returns false.

[wolbrink]

Sure, just use the Get System Settings command to obtain the service pack level - this will take just a little bit of custom scripting.

For some reason I first thought these "service pack" levels were NT4 specific. But apparently the service pack levels are specific to the runtime flavor of Windows.

--Troy