DelphiDabbler's Blog

In my native Yorkshire (in England) we have a saying that "there's nowt so funny as folk" ( trans: "there's nothing so peculiar as people" ). Well, in my post on 1st October, when v5.29.0 was released, I made it very clear that I was getting utterly sick of keeping the OS detection code up to date and was going to do just one final release at the year end. And then, a matter of days later, v5.30.0 dropped, and it's not the last release. So what's going on? Nowt so funny as folk. I was looking over the code and poking round the registry and thought there were a few more methods that really could be added to the OS detection code. Since I'm a bit under the weather at the moment and can't be bothered doing anything else, I entertained myself by adding those missing methods. They are all class methods of TPJOSInfo  (follow the links for documentation): BuildBranch DigitalProductID And then I started wondering if there was a way, that didn't

I can't believe we're slipping into autumn already. October 1st has been made all the more gloomy by poking around documentation trying to make sense of Windows builds that have been released in the last 3 months. It's taken hours! Anyhow, here's the autumn update to the  System Information Unit , v5.29.0. This update recognises the Windows 10 & 11 builds released from 1st July to 30 September 2024, which includes (today actually) the release of Windows 11 24H2. Grab this release from the project's GitHub  releases page , where you can also read the change log. At the spring update I mentioned that it's getting very tedious trying to match up the various Windows builds and revisions with the actual marketing names used for what is still labelled as Windows 10.0 if you only look at the actual version number reported by Windows! So, I think I'm going to do one more update to this unit at the year end and that will be it.