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Is there a cheatsheet available for WMI? Like what can be queried, where to query it from?

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closed as off-topic by Martijn Pieters, psubsee2003, Charles, Chris, Josh Crozier Oct 19 '13 at 0:48




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There's a ton of information available to query. I think that the best way is just to enumerate everything and have a look.

Try Microsoft's WMI Code Creator application. It helps you build queries in a few languages, so is sort of an interactive cheatsheet.

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I also remember finding the "wbemtest" application useful.

I think it's included with Windows, so try Start > Run > wbemtest.

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thank you, it is great. –  Ufuk Hacıoğulları Sep 12 '11 at 10:21

You can use WMI Browser in the WMI administrative tools. You can search for the classes, query the classes etc.


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I have found WMI Explorer very helpful in finding classes and methods-- it's a lot more elegant than WEBMtest


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