this section<\/B><\/A> of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide<\/I>. We should also note that this function is required if you\u2019re running Windows 2000 or an earlier version of Windows. If you\u2019re running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, there\u2019s a slightly easier way to convert UTC dates to real dates. We opted to use the goofy function because it works on any version of Windows.<\/P>\nOh, my gosh! Come on, you have got<\/I> to make that shot!<\/P>\n
Um, we\u2019ll close the door so that CD player won\u2019t bother us anymore. <\/P>\n
And, yes, that is a kind of unusual song he\u2019s listening to. Must be some kind of rap\/hip-hop thing.<\/P>\n
Other than the goofy date-time converter the remainder of the script is pretty straightforward. We begin by connecting to the WMI service on the local computer; of course – and let\u2019s all say it together – we could also run this script against a remote machine. (How? Just assign the name of the remote computer to the variable strComputer.) We then use this line of code to retrieve a collection of all the plug-and-play device drivers installed on the computer:<\/P>
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(“Select * from Win32_PnPSignedDriver”)\n<\/PRE>\nFrom there we simply set up a For Each loop to walk through the collection of device drivers, echoing back the values of properties such as DeviceName<\/B> and DriverVersion<\/B>. The one tricky part (which really isn\u2019t all that tricky) occurs when we encounter the DriverDate<\/B> property. If we just echoed back the DriverDate we\u2019d get one of those ugly UTC date-time values. Therefore, instead of echoing back the value of DriverDate we do this:<\/P>dtmWMIDate = objItem.DriverDate\nstrReturn = WMIDateStringToDate(dtmWMIDate)\nWscript.Echo “Driver Date: ” & strReturn\n<\/PRE>\nAs you can see, we grab the value of DriverDate and store it in a variable named dtmWMIDate. We then call the function WMIDateStringToDate (cute name, huh?), passing the variable dtmWMIDate as the function parameter. The function converts the date for us and then stores the converted value in a variable named strReturn. And then it\u2019s the value of the variable<\/I> (rather than the actual property value) that we end up echoing back.<\/P>\n
Whoa: he traveled on that play. Come on: doesn\u2019t it look like he\u2019s traveling every time he gets the ball?<\/P>\n
By which we mean, gee, doesn\u2019t it look like this is a very easy way to get back device driver information? <\/P>\n
At any rate, we have to go now; it\u2019s time to watch Arizona get beat by Wisconsin. <\/P>\n
By which we mean, gee, it must be time to do even more<\/I> work than we usually do \u2026.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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