Re: WMI usability

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

"Goppi" <Goppi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, I correct myself - it seems the only other efficient method to get
thesesettings is through the registry. You could perhaps hack the IO ports
on
the NIC card, but I don't consider this as the way to go.

My preference and understanding is the opposite, but I am not an expert in
this area. If the registry is a documented solution then it is a good
solution. Unless the registry is documented, I consider it to be a hack.

To "hack the IO ports on the NIC card" in NT/2000/XP and above it is
necessary to write a device driver. There are at least two other
possibilities that are documented either officially or unofficially. First,
DeviceIoControl is the the function for interfacing with a device driver,
and it is likely the data is available that way. Another possibility for
networks is software that implements low-level access to networks and such.


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