how to find the Difference between laptop and desktop pc

[Sonani Prakash]

Hi How to find whether my application is running on laptop machine or desktop machine ? any win api would help ? or any other thing needs to be looked up.

sonani prakash

[Dave Kreskowiak]

There isn't any API to do this. There really isn't any method of reliably determining this. Why should your application care?

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[originSH]

The only reason I could think you'd want this is for power saving if on a laptop. In which case you want to check the power settings of the machine rather than find out if the machine is a laptop.

[Sonani Prakash]

Thanks, Only way I am thinking is have to search for battery if it's present then it's laptop otherwise it's desktop...

sonani prakash

[Dan Neely]

Do UPS systems use the same API for battery reporting as laptops? IF so this would only be able to definitively identify some systems as desktops.

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[originSH]

dan neely wrote:

Do UPS systems use the same API for battery reporting as laptops?

I thought the same thing but then remebered that UPS is shown on a different tab to batteries and have a few different properties.