msinfo32 commandline on windows 7

Question

Hi,

I am using msinfo32 command to get the system information from code (executing a process),

Lets say

msinfo32 /nfo C:\TEMP\TEST.NFO

When I run my code on windows 7 a progress bar is shown, while when I run on XP no progress bar is shown, and the command executes silently.

Progress bar shown on windows 7 also has the button to cancel, which gives control to the user to cancel the command, which I don't want. I don't want the progress bar to be shown on windows 7.

Note: This also happens when I run the command from command line.

How this can be achieved?

Dhanyawaad (Thanks)

Answer 1

Use Spy++ to find the window class/text. Hide the Window.

 

Here's some VB6 code that does it

 

Public Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Public Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Public Const SWP_DRAWFRAME = &H20
Public Const SWP_FRAMECHANGED = &H20        '  The frame changed: send WM_NCCALCSIZE
Public Const SWP_HIDEWINDOW = &H80
Public Const SWP_NOACTIVATE = &H10
Public Const SWP_NOCOPYBITS = &H100
Public Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Public Const SWP_NOOWNERZORDER = &H200      '  Don't do owner Z ordering
Public Const SWP_NOREDRAW = &H8
Public Const SWP_NOREPOSITION = &H200
Public Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
Public Const SWP_NOZORDER = &H4
Public Const SWP_SHOWWINDOW = &H40

 

Public Declare Function SetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String) As Long

 

Sub Main()
On Error Resume Next
HWND_TOPMOST = -1

 

CmdLine = Command()
hwindows = FindWindow(vbNullString, CmdLine)
Ret = SetWindowPos(hwindows, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOREPOSITION + SWP_HIDEWINDOW + SWP_NOMOVE + SWP_NOSIZE)
If Ret = 0 Then MsgBox "Set Pos Error is " & Err.LastDllError
End Sub

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"Optimus22" wrote in message news:99c38e16-3990-46d9-930f-1e0a6659623d...

Hi,

I am using msinfo32 command to get the system information from code (executing a process),

Lets say

msinfo32 /nfo C:\TEMP\TEST.NFO

When I run my code on windows 7 a progress bar is shown, while when I run on XP no progress bar is shown, and the command executes silently.

Progress bar shown on windows 7 also has the button to cancel, which gives control to the user to cancel the command, which I don't want. I don't want the progress bar to be shown on windows 7.

Note: This also happens when I run the command from command line.

How this can be achieved?

Dhanyawaad (Thanks)

Answer 2

Thanks,

But this looks like workaround.

Is there another standard way?

Dhanyawaad (Thanks)

Answer 3

It is a tool in Windows, I'm afraid that it has no command switch to let you change this behavior: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300887

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Answer 4

What info are you interested in? Does it have to be the binary format. For instance systeminfo.exe gives a lot of info.

systeminfo >%userprofile%\desktop\systeminfo.txt

Wmic gives mind numbing detail about many things, below is a few. To see more see wmic /? for common ones and for less common (using the PATH parameter) see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394084(v=vs.85).aspx. You can use >> redirection to append output to an existing file.

 

wmic /namespace:\\root\wmi PATH MSStorageDriver_FailurePredictStatus get active,predictfailure,reason /format:List

wmic PATH Win32_VideoController get /format:List

 

wmic PATH Win32_NTLogEvent get /format:List

 

wmic PATH Win32_NTLogEvent get eventcode,message /format:List

 

wmic PATH Win32_SystemUsers get /format:List

wmic PATH WIN32_UserAccount get /format:List

wmic PATH WIN32_Account get /format:List

wmic PATH Win32_LoggedOnUser get /format:List

 

wmic pagefile get

 

wmic service get caption,startname

 

wmic logicaldisk get caption,description,filesystem,volumename,volumedirty,size,freespace

 

wmic diskdrive get status,model,partitions

 

wmic baseboard get product,Manufacturer,model,partnumber

 

wmic startup get caption, command, user

 

wmic computersystem get CurrentTimeZone, DaylightInEffect,EnableDaylightSavingsTime

 

wmic recoveros get autoreboot,writetosystemlog,debuginfotype,writedebuginfo

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"Optimus22" wrote in message news:87b5b626-7f92-48ce-8243-2f50be87b308...

Thanks,

But this looks like workaround.

Is there another standard way?

Dhanyawaad (Thanks)