How to get information of Hardwares thru code?

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Mota - 31 Dec 2004 23:06 GMT

Hi;
I need an API to get some hardware informations such as Serial No. of Hard
disk ,MainBoard and so on.Can anyone please help me?
Thank you in advance for your help.

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MikeB - 31 Dec 2004 23:16 GMT

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_
reference.asp

> Hi;
> I need an API to get some hardware informations such as Serial No. of Hard
> disk ,MainBoard and so on.Can anyone please help me?
> Thank you in advance for your help.

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Mota - 01 Jan 2005 20:43 GMT

Dear Mike,
I couldnt find the thing im looking for,there.If im wrong,can you please
send me an example to get a Serial Number from my hard disk drive?I will be
so much grateful to you.
Thanx.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/
wmi_reference.asp

> > Hi;
> > I need an API to get some hardware informations such as Serial No. of Hard
> > disk ,MainBoard and so on.Can anyone please help me?
> > Thank you in advance for your help.

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MikeB - 02 Jan 2005 12:41 GMT

http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/wmi/samples/hw/

> Dear Mike,
> I couldnt find the thing im looking for,there.If im wrong,can you please
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> > > disk ,MainBoard and so on.Can anyone please help me?
> > > Thank you in advance for your help.

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Mota - 02 Jan 2005 13:23 GMT

It doesnt work in VBA or need to install and make a reference to something
(maybe MDAC).
AFAIR it can be done simply thru a Win API.am i right?
Any comments ?
Thank you again for ur help.

> http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/wmi/samples/hw/
>
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> > so much grateful to you.
> > Thanx.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/

> > wmi_reference.asp
> > >
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> > > > disk ,MainBoard and so on.Can anyone please help me?
> > > > Thank you in advance for your help.

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MikeB - 03 Jan 2005 14:49 GMT

WMI is already on machines of W2k and up and can be added to Win98 > and NT4.
It is a free download from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=AFE41F46
-E213-4CBF-9C5B-FBF236E0E875

> It doesnt work in VBA or need to install and make a reference to something
> (maybe MDAC).
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> > > > > disk ,MainBoard and so on.Can anyone please help me?
> > > > > Thank you in advance for your help.

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