>>So many people have been asking about WMI, I decided to write a little quick and dirty program that should help get people started. I posted the zipped VFP 9.0 form at www.shelbynet.com/downloads/vfp_wmi.zip
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>Hi John,
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>Nice! The tinfo cursor's value field is a little short for some of the values, but you said 'quick and dirty'... and for that it is quite good. Reminded me of some WMI stuff that Stuart Dunkeld had posted on his blog awhile back.
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>http://weblogs.foxite.com/stuartdunkeld/archive/2005/07/15/778.aspx
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>Just goes to show that WMI can provide some amazingly powerful stuff if you know how to use it and don't mind the extra dependency in your application. Thanks for sharing the program John.

Yes, I credited Stuart in the comments of the init of the form and put a link to his site there.

I use the wmi code for things like capturing cpu serial numbers for the WASP application. We had a notebook to get stolen out of a squad car, so I could determine if that notebook tries to access our servers and deny it because the cpu serial number was logged already.