MoW, a Monad newsgroup regular, asked why only the Caption, Name and PeakUsage properties were displayed from the command “get-WMIObject Win32_PageFileUsage” while the output object had a lot more properties. I think it is worth it to explain in details how to find out which properties are displayed.
First, I would look at which view defined in one of the *.format.msh1xml files is used. The Trace-Command Cmdlet can help here:
Trace-Command –option All –Name FormatViewBinding { get-WMIObject Win32_PageFileUsage | out-host} –MshHost
The trace output is in yellow. It reads at the end: “DEBUG: FormatViewBindin Information: 0 : No applicable view has been found.” Now, I know that no view is used. The next place to look is the types.msh1xml file. In this file, each type description can have a node called DefaultDisplayPropertySet where the default display properties are defined. Since the class in question is Win32_PageFileUsage, we can search for the string in notepad. Here is the section for the class.
<Type>
<Name>System.Management.ManagementObject#root\cimv2\Win32_PageFileUsage</Name>
<Members>
<PropertySet>
<Name>MshStatus</Name>
<ReferencedProperties>
<Name>Status</Name>
<Name>Name</Name>
<Name>CurrentUsage</Name>
</ReferencedProperties>
</PropertySet>
<MemberSet>
<Name>MshStandardMembers</Name>
<Members>
<PropertySet>
<Name>DefaultDisplayPropertySet</Name>
<ReferencedProperties>
<Name>Caption</Name>
<Name>Name</Name>
<Name>PeakUsage</Name>
</ReferencedProperties>
</PropertySet>
</Members>
</MemberSet>
</Members>
</Type>
Under the DefaultDisplayPropertySet node, there are Caption, Name, and PeakUsage. The question is answered.
– Kevin[MSFT]
[Edit: Monad has now been renamed to Windows PowerShell. This script or discussion may require slight adjustments before it applies directly to newer builds.]
PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why are only a subset of properties displayed?
PSMDTAG:TYPE:WMI: Win32_PageFileUsage
PSMDTAG:CMDLET: Trace-Command, Get-WMIObject
PSMDTAG:INTERNAL: Use Trace-Command to find out what decisions FORMATTING is making.
PSMDTAG:CMDLET:FORMAT: Debugging formatting decisions
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