Retrieve Monitor Serial Number with wmi
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After reading thru about 12 pages of postings, and articles on wmi I found nothing explicitly describing or addressing my problem, so here is my question::: I am Trying to retrieve the serial number from my monitors, I have verified by use of other software tools that this number does infact exist within the PnP data, and **should** be accessible by use of wmi/cim. However every time I have tried to access this information I am restricted to accessing only what the OS says I have, which is *default monitor*. Now as I stated, I have already used another tool to retireive this info, so I know the possiblity exists, so just short of calling a few "friends" over to rough up the devies who created it I'm on the hunt for my own solution. But like I said, the only thing I can find is the *default monitor* from the OS. I did pursue an attempt with the registry data, but kinda got side-tracked once I encountered the EDID entries being in binary (didn't have the mental capacity that day to try to do conversions), so I left it alone for a few days. and without trying to spend too much time looking into MIF / DMI I found that that may provide some useful information, but I haven't researched that too much yet. Now I'm back working on it, and i need to find a way to access this information. so just short of reading the entire DMI standard just wondering if anyone out there has used any thing that has worked for them or any tips on where / how to find this information (besides turning the monitor around and writing it down. :rolleyes: ) Oh, yah, we are using Dell devices, so I know Dell has proprietary software for this, but that isn't an option for us. thanks in advance string Beautiful; Beautiful = "ignorant"; label1.Text = "The world is full of " + Beautiful +" people."; Why is common sense such an un-common comodity?