Get Hardware Information Without WMI?

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Hi i have a program that collects hardware information from wmi. but wmi is not very reliable.is there another way to get hardware information like cpu, motherboard, Ram, video controller and ....
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Posted 11-Apr-12 20:58pm

mahdi87_gh

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Apr-12 3:03am

Why without WMI? I would call is "making yourself the difficulties and bravely overcoming them"... :-)
I would not expect that someone would dedicate considerable time to helping you unless you provide reasonable explanation of why you want it.
--SA

mahdi87_gh 12-Apr-12 5:58am

because i want to get monitor name and model and ther is no information in wmi classes. and you cannot get display adapter dedicated memory, and you cannot get Ram devices model and manufacturer and ...

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Shahin Khorshidnia · Answer 1 · 2012-04-12T05:45:00

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Hello

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Posted 12-Apr-12 5:45am

Shahin Khorshidnia

Updated 12-Apr-12 5:46am

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