[Tripredacus]

When doing initial research for how to make my programs better, I rely on an old program:
WMI Toolkit

Mostly 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?

[iamtheky]

Maybe different results with the autoit variety of Scriptomatic this version of Scriptomatic?

This post has been edited by iamtheky: 23 April 2012 - 03:26 PM

[CoffeeFiend]

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 Explorer

Then 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).

[Tripredacus]

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!

[cluberti]

wbemtest still exists and works too, although not as easy to use as some of the others.

[MrJinje]

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...-Explorer.shtml

[CoffeeFiend]

MrJinje, on 10 August 2012 - 10:03 PM, said:

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...-Explorer.shtml

While 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.