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Get Windows Registry Size With WMI And C#

On March 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

Windows Registry Size can be retrieved using WMI objects. This code snippet shows you how to get current size and maximum size for Windows registry.

ManagementObjectSearcher mgmtObjects = new ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from Win32_Registry"); foreach (var item in mgmtObjects.Get()) { Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Current Size: {0}MB", item["CurrentSize"])); Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Maximum Size: {0}MB", item["MaximumSize"])); }

 

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Get Processor Information In .NET Using C#

On March 9, 2009 · 5 Comments

.NET Framework provides classes which give information about the machine on which code is executed. One Such class is System.Environment which gives us things like Machine Name, OS Version and much more. I recently had a requirement to programmatically detect the number of Processors on a machine. I thought this was a simple enough task. [...]

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Get CD Or DVD Drive Information Using WMI And C#

On March 9, 2009 · 1 Comment

This snippet shows you how to get information about all CD / DVD drives on your machine using WMI and C#. To run the code you need to add reference to System.Management.

ManagementObjectSearcher mgmtObjects = new ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from Win32_CDROMDrive"); foreach (var item in mgmtObjects.Get()) { Console.WriteLine("Drive Letter – \t" + item["Drive"]); Console.WriteLine("Name – \t" [...]

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