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Hi All,

I am new to visual Basic 2005 and i have a project where in i have to get the List of installed Softwares available on the PC,List of Installed Hardware ,List of network Information ,User name and Macid of the system.



I have done these things using Visual Basic 6.0 with certain references from the site

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptprofiler.asp



I need the all the similar information available in the above link ,done using visual basic 2005 .Pls help me regarding this as it will be more helpful for my project completion
Jan 6 '07 #1
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Ananth,

All this information is available through the use of the WMI (Windows Management Interface). WindowsITPro has a good article on getting a list of installed applications. Once you have the framework, it's fairly easy to refer to other WMI objects.

Kind regards,
Bruce.
Jan 8 '07 #2

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