{"id":3783,"date":"2013-04-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/04\/20\/powertip-use-powershell-to-detect-mouse-type-used-on-laptop\/"},"modified":"2013-04-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-detect-mouse-type-used-on-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-detect-mouse-type-used-on-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Detect Mouse Type Used on Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell and WMI to detect the type of mouse that is being used on a laptop running Windows 8.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I find information about the type of mice that are being used in conjunction with my laptop that is running Windows 8?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Depending on the mouse, you may be able to obtain the information by using the Get-CimInstance<\/strong> cmdlet and the Win32_PointingDevice WMI class. Select the HardwareType<\/strong> property.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>  The following illustrates this technique on my laptop.<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Get-CimInstance win32_POINTINGDEVICE | select hardwaretype<\/p>\n

hardwaretype<\/p>\n

————<\/p>\n

ThinkPad UltraNav Pointing Device<\/p>\n

Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 (IntelliPoint)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell and WMI to detect the type of mouse that is being used on a laptop running Windows 8.  How can I find information about the type of mice that are being used in conjunction with my laptop that is running Windows 8?  Depending on the mouse, you may be able to obtain the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell and WMI to detect the type of mouse that is being used on a laptop running Windows 8.  How can I find information about the type of mice that are being used in conjunction with my laptop that is running Windows 8?  Depending on the mouse, you may be able to obtain the […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}