Hey, TW. Well, that depends. If the file is located on the local computer, the easiest way is to use the FileSystemObject. Have a burning desire to know which version of Regedit.exe is installed on your computer? All it takes is two lines of code:<\/p>\n
Set objFSO = CreateObject(\"Scripting.FileSystemObject\")\nWscript.Echo objFSO.GetFileVersion(\"c:\\windows\\regedit.exe\")\n<\/pre>\nAs you can see, this is about as simple a script as you\u2019ll ever write. In line 1, we create an instance of the FileSystemObject; in line 2, we use the GetFileVersion method to return the version number of C:\\Windows\\Regedit.exe. That\u2019s all there is to it.<\/p>\n
OK, we know: some of you are thinking, \u201cSure, that works fine if the file in question is located on the local computer. But what if that file is located on a remote<\/i> computer? After all, the FileSystemObject is designed to work locally, not remotely. What do we do then<\/i>?\u201d<\/p>\n
Relax; if the file is located remotely, you can use WMI and the CIM_DataFile class to get back this same information. Here\u2019s a script that reports the version of Regedit,exe installed on the remote computer atl-ws-01:<\/p>\n
strComputer = \"atl-ws-01\"\nSet objWMIService = GetObject _\n (\"winmgmts:\\\\\" & strComputer & \"\\root\\cimv2\")\nSet colFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _\n (\"SELECT * FROM CIM_DataFile WHERE Name = 'c:\\\\windows\\\\regedit.exe'\")\nFor Each objFile in colFiles\n Wscript.Echo objFile.Version\nNext\n<\/pre>\nAgain, pretty straightforward, with one exception: notice that you have to use two slashes (\\\\) any time you include a path name in a WQL query. As a result, we end up looking for C:\\\\Windows\\\\Regedit.exe rather than C:\\Windows\\Regedit.exe. Other than that it\u2019s a regular old WMI script, the kind you\u2019ve written many times before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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