Questions tagged [wmi-query]

Query over the content of CIM repository on Windows Machines that uses WQL (Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language ).

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WMI through Java using J-Interop

I am new to WMI and using J-interop lib for COM communication through Java... I have a requirement to get Physical memory data from remote system. I have following code : it provides some of the data but have some flaw in it like I have 2 GB memory…
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Is there any way to check if a (UNC path) volume is a Windows DedupVolume or not?

I wanted to find out if a given volume has Data Deduplication enabled or not. For a local volume this is straightforward using the WMI query: select * from MSFT_DedupVolume where Volume='E:\\MountFolder\\DedupVolume' But for a UNC path as volume…
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WMI Win32_VideoController RAM 4GB Limit

I use WMI Win32_VideoController, AdapterRAM property to read the display adapter RAM size in Windows 10, but the problem is that the value is limited to 4GB maximum. On a display adapter with 11GB I still get 4GB (and yes I use int64 for the result,…
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Select Top 5 or Limit to 5 entries on Get-WmiObject Powershell query

I'm perfoming queries on the event viewer (Win32_NTLogEvent) Is there anyway to just select the top 10 or max 5 return events I had already try with TOP, LIMIT or ROWCOUNT but nothing works Get-WmiObject -Query 'SELECT * FROM Win32_NTLogEvent WHERE…
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PowerShell: how to unregister orphaned WMI events

The following block of code will generate 100 WMI event subscriptions. This particular case is just an example, and will write a string to a file (100 times) whenever a keyboard is plugged in: $KeyboardQuery = "SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent…
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WMI query too slow

I need get Office is Activated or need activation and i use normal query in WMI: ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2", "SELECT * FROM " + wmi + " WHERE…
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Programatically access Windows Password Policy settings

I am developing a .NET website that is using Windows Authentication. I have a requirement to make website password policy exactly same as the Windows password policy which is under: (gpedit.msc) Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security…
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Delphi Wmi Query on a Remote Machine

We use WmiSet to do Wmi Queries on remote machines. It works very well in Delphi 2007 but is not currently available for Delphi XE. I found some code to do Wmi Queries from a previous SO Question Use Wmi with Delphi. The code snippet provided in…
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Unable to search directory subtree with WQL query

I am attempting to find all .PST files for the logged on user. However, I seem unable to add a path to 'Drive'. I would like to search all files under C:\users\ + $env:UserName This command seems to find all PST files on C:\ $Res = Get-CimInstance…
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Access to WMI Namespace for non-administrator user

I have an issue - currently I have an IIS server that runs a number of Applicaiton pools that are monitored by running the following bit of Powershell Code: $applicationPools = get-wmiobject -namespace "root\MicrosoftIISv2" -class…
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how to read the contents of a log file that is retrieved using WQL using c++

I am new to WMI.I tried to implement a java application that get the WQL query from the user and executes the query using a c++ native program which i call from the java application using JNI.I managed to make the WMI calls and retrieve the data. My…
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Different order of hard drives in WMI queries

I'm doing a couple WMI queries to get information regarding the hard drives on a computer, specifically I'm using the namespaces Win32_DiskDrive, to get general hard drive information and MSStorageDriver_ATAPISmartData, to get SMART data. My queries…
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cant connect to remote machine using WMI and Perl

I'm trying to write a script that will get event log information off of a remote windows machine using the win32::ole module and a WMI query. I can ping the machine but no matter what my WMI connection always fails using the ConnectServer() method.…
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Windows 10 applications how to get child process main window handle from parent process

Hi in Windows 10 some applications like calculator ,if I run calc.exe it spawns the calculator.exe and and immediately exit cal.exe.my requirement is get the main window handle of this child process (calculator.exe) For getting the child process…
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