I'm all for it as long as it is a self-contained application. That is, it requires no setup files, and only depends on Windows components that are pretty much guaranteed to be in your bare bones install. Lest we have to support them on getting this version checker going before we can support them with their original question... too complicated
Hopefully this utility doesn't lead the users to ask the forbidden question. If so, the team will of course look down on it.