March, 2009

Writing a BGINFO like Script: Displaying Memory information via WMI using the Win32_PhysicalMemory class

I recently had to provide the information displayed with BGINFO on a number of systems. Unfortunately, BGInfo only generates a bitmap, so far as I know, so I decided to write a script to generate the information and use this displayed information to send back to the person who requested it.

The function below is a part of the script I mentioned. It retrieves and returns text that represents the total amount of physical memory in a system.

You can view all the scripts in this BGINFO series here.

Here is the code:

Function GetPhysicalMemory(strComputer)
Dim colItems, objItem, address
Dim StrQuery
Dim objWMIService, RAM
GetPhysicalMemory = VbCrLf
RAM = 0

StrQuery = “SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMemory”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2″)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery,,48)

For Each objItem in colItems
RAM = RAM + objItem.capacity
Next
GetPhysicalMemory = GetPhysicalMemory & vbTab & (((RAM/1024)/1024)/1024) & ” Gb” & VbCrLf
End Function

Writing a BGINFO like Script: Displaying Processor information with WMI via the Win32_Processor class

I recently had to provide the information displayed with BGINFO on a number of systems. Unfortunately, BGInfo only generates a bitmap, so far as I know, so I decided to write a script to generate the information and use this displayed information to send back to the person who requested it.

The function below is a part of the script I mentioned. It retrieves and returns text that represents the Processor information in the system and teh number of processors in the system. (Note: At this time I don’t have a dual core system to test it with, I believe that it will diplay the number of cores in the system. So, 4 dual core processors will be displayed as 8 processors/cores.)

You can view all the scripts in this BGINFO series here.

Here is the code:

StrQuery = “SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2″)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery,,48)

For Each objItem in colItems
If Replace objItem.name,”GHz”,””) = objItem.name then
GetCPUs =(round(objItem.CurrentClockSpeed/1024,1)) & “GHz” & ” ” & objItem.name & VbCrLf
Else
GetCPUs = objItem.name & VbCrLf
end if
Cores = Cores + 1
Next
GetCPUs =  vbTab & Cores & ” Processors/Cores that are: ” & GetCPUs
End Function

Writing a BGINFO like Script: Displaying MAC Address information with WMI via the Win32_NetworkAdapter class

I recently had to provide the information displayed with BGINFO on a number of systems. Unfortunately, BGInfo only generates a bitmap, so far as I know, so I decided to write a script to generate the information and use this displayed information to send back to the person who requested it.

The function below is a part of the script I mentioned. It retrieves and returns text that represents the total space and the total free space on all the physical hard drives in a system.

You can view all the scripts in this BGINFO series here.

Here is the code:

Function GetMACAddress(strComputer)
Dim colItems, objItem, address
Dim StrQuery
Dim objWMIService

StrQuery = “SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2″)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery,,48)

For Each objItem in colItems
if objitem.MACAddress <> vbnull Then
GetMACAddress = GetMACAddress & vbTab & objItem.name & “: ” & objItem.MACAddress & VbCrLf
End If
Next
End Function

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Writing a BGINFO like Script: Displaying DNS Server settings with WMI via the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class

I recently had to provide the information displayed with BGINFO on a number of systems. Unfortunately, BGInfo only generates a bitmap, so far as I know, so I decided to write a script to generate the information and use this displayed information to send back to the person who requested it.

The function below is a part of the script I mentioned. It retrieves and returns text that represents the DNS Server settings for the network adapters in the system.

You can view all the scripts in this BGINFO series here.

Here is the code:

Function GetDNSAddress(strComputer)
on error resume next
Dim colItems, objItem, address
Dim StrQuery
Dim objWMIService
Dim IP

StrQuery = “SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WHERE IPEnabled = True”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2″)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery,,48)

For Each objItem in colItems
For Each address In objItem.DNSServerSearchOrder
IP = replace(address,”:”,””)
‘IP = Replace(IP,vbnull,”No IP Assigned”)
GetDNSAddress = GetDNSAddress & vbTab & mid(objItem.caption,InStr(objItem.caption,”]”)+2) & “: ” & IP & vbcrLF
Next
Next
On Error GoTo 0
End Function

Writing a BGINFO like Script: Displaying Network Adapter Speed with WMI via the Win32_NetworkAdapter class

I recently had to provide the information displayed with BGINFO on a number of systems. Unfortunately, BGInfo only generates a bitmap, so far as I know, so I decided to write a script to generate the information and use this displayed information to send back to the person who requested it.

The function below is a part of the script I mentioned. It retrieves and returns text that represents the speed of teh network adapters in a system.

You can view all the scripts in this BGINFO series here.

Here is the code:

Function GetNetworkSpeed(strComputer)
Dim colItems, objItem, address
Dim StrQuery
Dim objWMIService

StrQuery = “SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2″)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery,,48)

For Each objItem in colItems
GetNetworkSpeed = GetNetworkSpeed & vbTab & objItem.ProductName & vbCr
Next
End Function

Writing a BGINFO like Script: Displaying Disk Statistics with WMI via the Win32_LogicalDisk class

I recently had to provide the information displayed with BGINFO on a number of systems. Unfortunately, BGInfo only generates a bitmap, so far as I know, so I decided to write a script to generate the information and use this displayed information to send back to the person who requested it.

The function below is a part of the script I mentioned. It retrieves and returns text that represents the total space and the total free space on all the physical hard drives in a system.

You can view all the scripts in this BGINFO series here.

Here is the code:

Function GetDiskInfo(strComputer)
Dim colItems, objItem, address
Dim StrQuery
Dim objWMIService

StrQuery = “SELECT * FROM Win32_logicaldisk”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2″)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(strQuery,,48)
GetDiskInfo = VbCrLf

For Each objItem in colItems
if objitem.MediaType = 12 Then
GetDiskInfo = GetDiskInfo & vbTab & objItem.Caption & “\ ” & Round((((objItem.size/1024)/1024)/1024),2) & ” GB Total with ” & Round((((objItem.Freespace/1024)/1024)/1024),2) & ” GB free” & ” (” & objitem.filesystem & “)” & VbCrLf
End If
Next
End Function

Writing scripts that use speech with the Windows Speech API

I’ve been looking for ways to make a script speak the information it needs to relay to the user just for fun and, unfortunately the only scripts I could find out there were extremely elaborate onces that use the Microsoft Office Agents. While they fit the bill they were annoying and required Microsoft office components to be installed… that just wouldn’t do.

Then I found the Windows Sound API. It doesn’t require anything at all to be installed and it works fine. The script below is simple and easy to implement in your code. Check it out:

strText = “Hello, there…. can you write code?”

Set objVoice = CreateObject(”SAPI.SpVoice”)
objVoice.Speak strText

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