How to get the IE version number from the Windows registry? [duplicate]
Reading this key using the "reg query" OS command:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer... with this value:
VersionReturns a number like this:
8.0.7600.16385Or returns errorCode 1 if that entry does not exist, which presumably indicates that IE is not installed.
Stumbled across this while trying to solve the same problem.
Andrew's answer from 2010 is correct, but since then, newer Internet Explorers (10 and 11) do not show their true version number in the registry value: 'Version'. Instead, it is recorded in the registry value: 'svcVersion'.
In newer version IE 10 and 11 true version is recorded in value 'svcVersion' and value 'Version' contains at the beginning '9.'