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COM object to return system hardware details?

I need to create a simple VB app that would run at startup on a computer and transmit a list of the computer's hardware details (CPU, RAM, Video card, etc.) to a database. This is sort of similar to what you can do with SMS, but I want to do it with an in house application for flexibility. I'm trying to find a COM object that will return information on the system's hardware.

EDDYKT

May be this

http://www.vb-fun.de/cgi-bin/downloadtools2.pl?ID=hwinfo&Ort=vb/komponenten&File=http://www.dswd.de/download/hwinfo.zip

AutumnIglesias

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looks like that would work prefectly, unfortunately it doesn't include any documentation on how to use it other than a few properties. i couldn't figure out how to create the object.

EDDYKT

this is ocx so that you just add from the component and paste to your form

EDDYKT

also the zip includes the hwinfo.chm, take a look on th control property.

For example if the control you paste to form named crtl

the to display biosvendor, you juse do

debug.print crtl.BIOSVendor

EDDYKT

Of course, you need to registry the ocx by using

regsvr32 hwinfo.ocx

AutumnIglesias

ASKER

Ok, the part I don't understand is where does crtl come from? I mean, how do I tell Visual Basic I want to use this control. Usually I do something like:

dim foo as object
set foo=CreateObject("foo.bar")

That's what I'm looking for. Sorry if I was unclear. Thank you...

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