"Gathering Computer Information Using WMI"

Gathering computer information using WMI

"After a ton of questions regarding the the DriveInfo examples (Determine Hard Drive Serial Numbers and Revenge of DriveInfo) asking how to determine other information such as CPU identification, motherboard serial number and BIOS serial numbers I'm updated the WMI version of the application to read this information. ..."

Nice. I dig WMI...

Just last Friday I horked out a quick VB.Net WMI utility to take a text file list of PCs, enumerate through them and pull the physical memory configuration and dump it to a XML file (we are upgrading the RAM on them and needed to know what kinds of sticks were already there and thereby see what we needed... etc). Excel 2003 was able read the XML into a list on a worksheet so the end user could easily slice and dice the date...

I think the hard part of WMI is deciding WHAT you want from the billions of classes...