Making winxp look like win7 to a network

[orion456]

How does a network know what operating system I am using?

Is it possible to make winxp look like win7 to the network?

 

[Janus67]

There's multiple places that your machine/OS stores its information (WMI, registry, etc). Are you speaking of a work network/domain or a small LAN setup?

Active Directory records the OS of a desktop when it is added to the domain. I imagine it pulls through WMI query to report that information.

Why would you want to hide your windows XP box to a network?

 

[c627627]

If either using a machine from the future today or if taking a current machine to the past, this would come in very useful.

Now that we have the 'why' - what is the 'how'?

 

[Xtreme Barton]

Research OS detection over network.. And also OS fingerprinting

nmap.org is a good source for OS detection over network.

Here is a link www.nmap.org/book/osdetect.html

This is good stuff too.. From forensics wiki .. Scroll down a tad
http://forensicswiki.org/wiki/Determining_OS_version_from_an_evidence_image