Tripredacus Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 When doing initial research for how to make my programs better, I rely on an old program:WMI ToolkitMostly just the WMI Object Browser. Well this either does not work with Windows 8 or IE 10. While it is fine for me to manually connect to root\CIMV2, and I can see *some* classes, the values (even for those) do not appear. For example, while Win32_BaseBoard does not show up in the classes list (classes that can have instances) in the Object Browser, I can actually read data from it using a test program. Are there any other WMI object tools that will work on Windows 8 or IE 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheky Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) Maybe different results with the autoit variety of Scriptomatic this version of Scriptomatic? Edited April 23, 2012 by iamtheky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Several more options which I've used (untested on Win8, all tested on Win7) :-WMI Code Creator-PowerShell Scriptomatic or the classic Scriptomatic 2.0-WMI Explorer-PowerShell WMI ExplorerThen again just typing gwmi SomeClassNameHere or gwmi SomeClassNameHere | gm in PowerShell is often enough to get the infos you want without using a fancy tool (obviously no code generation there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 The Powershell one looks promising. I have no problem writing the scripts and I already know what the classes are. Typically, I use the WMI Object Browser because I know what data I am looking for, but do not know what class or instance it is in. But I will definately check a couple of those out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 wbemtest still exists and works too, although not as easy to use as some of the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Sapien has a freeware WMI Explorer. It's similar yet different from the WMI Explorer from Advanced Host Monitor (linked in Coffee's post)http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/SAPIEN-WMI-Explorer.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Sapien has a freeware WMI Explorer. It's similar yet different from the WMI Explorer from Advanced Host Monitor (linked in Coffee's post)http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/SAPIEN-WMI-Explorer.shtmlWhile I've never tried that one, I have to say that Sapien makes some pretty rad stuff. PrimalScript is a great little tool for those who still do VBScript. I haven't tried their PowerShell utils though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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