System Information

Abbas_Riazi

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Obtaining Information from Computer Hardware/Software

Screen shot of program

Introduction

This program shows you a very simple way to determine your PC hardware and software. It queries operating system for the following Hardware/Software:

Operating System Version (Thanks to PJ Naughter)
Computer Name
IP Address of Computer
User Name
Internet Explorer Version
Total RAM
Free Memory
Number of Hard Disk Drives
Hard Disk Total Space/Free Space/Used Space
CDROM Drives
Monitor Resolution
Color Depth
Number of CPUs (Thanks to Iain Chesworth)
CPU Speed
CPU Identifier
CPU Vendor Identifier
Operating System Folder
System Folder

Program structure

By clicking the combo box and changing it's item, selected item is determined and it's ID passed to Process member function of dialog. The Process member function takes ID of query and returns the proper result. Body of Process has a lot of code to prepares result and if any error has occurred, the error string will be returned.

How to use

Add the following header and implementation files to your project:

cup_info.h, cpu_info.cpp: For CPU Information like Speed, ID, Vendor ID,...
dtwinver.h, dtwinver.cpp: For Operating System Version (e.g. Build Number and Service Packs)
SysInfoDefs.h, SysInfoDefs.cpp: For General System Information like Total RAM, Number of Hard Disk Drives, Disk Space/Free Space/Used Space
SmartDef.h: For IDE S.M.A.R.T. commands to query from IDE hard disks that support SMART.

Functions

Below table shows all functions that are used to determine Hardware/Software of the computer.

`CString DetermineIEVer();`	Determining Internet Explorer Version (Build Number)
`CString QueryHardDisks();`	Calculating Number of Hard Disks and Number of Cylinders, Tracks per Cylinders, Sectors per Tracks, Bytes per Sector and Total Capacity for each Hard Disks
`CString QueryDriveSpace();`	Calculating Drive Space/Free Space/Used Space of All Hard Drives
`CString QueryCDDrive();`	Determining Number of CD Drives
`CString QueryTotalRAM()`	Calculating Total Physical RAM (Random Access Memory)
`CString QueryFreeRAM();`	Calculating Free Physical Memory
`CString QueryUserName()`	User Name of current user
`CString QueryComputerName();`	Computer Name
`CString QueryCPUInfo();`	Number of CPU Installed on Mother Board
`CString QueryCPUSpeed();`	Speed of each CPU
`CString QueryCPUID();`	ID of each CPU
`CString QueryCPUVendorID();`	ID of CPU Vendor
`CString QueryResolution();`	Calculating Monitor Resolution in Pixel
`CString QueryPixelDepth();`	Calculating Color Depth of any Pixel
`CString QueryOS();`	Determining Operating System Version (Build Number) and it's Service Pack
`CString QueryLocalIPAddress();`	Determining IP Address of Computer
`CString QueryHDDSmartCommand();`	Query IDE hard disks that support SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology).
`CString QueryDirectory(char* sFolder,int iFolder);`	Determining Full Path of Specified Folder where `sFolder` is Folder Name and `iFolder` is Folder Shell ID Number
`CString GetCommandError();`	Determining last occurred error

Requirements

Latest Platform SDK
Visual Studio 6.0 with service pack 5

License

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Written By

Abbas_Riazi

CEO Solaris Electronics LLC

United Arab Emirates

I was born in Shiraz, a very beautiful famous city in Iran. I started programming when I was 12 years old with GWBASIC. Since now, I worked with various programming languages from Basic, Foxpro, C/C++, Visual Basic, Pascal to MATLAB and now Visual C++.
I graduated from Iran University of Science & Technology in Communication Eng., and now work as a system programmer for a telecommunication industry.
I wrote several programs and drivers for Synthesizers, Power Amplifiers, GPIB, GPS devices, Radio cards, Data Acquisition cards and so many related devices.
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