Get Hardware Information Using Wmi
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Get hardware information using wmi. Windows management instrumentation wmi is the infrastructure for management data and operations on windows based operating systems. Get ciminstance classname win32 computersystem select object property systemtype systemtype x86 based pc listing computer manufacturer and model. Wmi tasks for computer hardware obtain information about the presence state or properties of hardware components. You can retrieve general processor information by using wmi s win32 processor class although you will likely want to filter the information.
For example you can determine whether a computer is a desktop or laptop. How to get hardware information using wmi in c posted on october 22 2012 by venu gopal in c dotnet. Current computer and write function getwmiservices this function will be used in all procedures that get information from wmi and can be modified to get wmi services from another computer. The script examples shown in this topic obtain data only from the local computer.
Batch and click the generate button to generate the code. To use these queries in scripts download and start wmigen select the appropriate namespace root cimv2 in most cases and scroll to the appropriate class e g. We can develop applications to obtain enterprise or perform some administrative tasks using wmi. Select the scripting language you want to use e g.