Here’s a little utility I wrote the other day for executing WMI queries. I didn’t like the clunky WMI tools that Microsoft provide (they require IE/ActiveX to use, yuk), so I wrote this in Visual Basic. Yeah I know VB is the spawn of evil, yadda, yadda, sure it is - but it’s a lot better than it used to be (try-catch blocks anyone?). I used the express edition of Visual Studio 2005 which is surprisingly usable, and the not the crippled mess I was expecting at all. Nice one MS something free and good, I thought only Google did that

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