I want to check what type of operating system i use and what kind of processor. this should be check on run time. i tried using
System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE")
and
System.OperatingSystem osInfo2 = System.Environment.OSVersion;
Console.WriteLine(osInfo2.ToString());
but it's just the enviroment that VS is running on.
I was told to use WMI to check it but i can't find out how.
can someone help me with that?
Yes WMI is the best way to do this kind of stuff
You can use this to retrieve OS informations :
ManagementObjectSearcher objMOS = new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2", "SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem");
Retrieving OS info:
var wmi =
new ManagementObjectSearcher( "select * from Win32_OperatingSystem" )
.Get()
.Cast<ManagementObject>()
.First();
OS.Name = ((string)wmi["Caption"]).Trim();
OS.Version = (string)wmi["Version"];
OS.MaxProcessCount = (uint)wmi["MaxNumberOfProcesses"];
OS.MaxProcessRAM = (ulong)wmi["MaxProcessMemorySize"];
OS.Architecture = (string)wmi["OSArchitecture"];
OS.SerialNumber = (string)wmi["SerialNumber"];
OS.Build = ((string)wmi["BuildNumber"]).ToUint();
Retrieving CPU info:
var cpu =
new ManagementObjectSearcher( "select * from Win32_Processor" )
.Get()
.Cast<ManagementObject>()
.First();
CPU.ID = (string)cpu["ProcessorId"];
CPU.Socket = (string)cpu["SocketDesignation"];
CPU.Name = (string)cpu["Name"];
CPU.Description = (string)cpu["Caption"];
CPU.AddressWidth = (ushort)cpu["AddressWidth"];
CPU.DataWidth = (ushort)cpu["DataWidth"];
CPU.Architecture = (CPU.CpuArchitecture)(ushort)cpu["Architecture"];
CPU.SpeedMHz = (uint)cpu["MaxClockSpeed"];
CPU.BusSpeedMHz = (uint)cpu["ExtClock"];
CPU.L2Cache = (uint)cpu["L2CacheSize"] * (ulong)1024;
CPU.L3Cache = (uint)cpu["L3CacheSize"] * (ulong)1024;
CPU.Cores = (uint)cpu["NumberOfCores"];
CPU.Threads = (uint)cpu["NumberOfLogicalProcessors"];
CPU.Name =
CPU.Name
.Replace( "(TM)", "™" )
.Replace( "(tm)", "™" )
.Replace( "(R)", "®" )
.Replace( "(r)", "®" )
.Replace( "(C)", "©" )
.Replace( "(c)", "©" )
.Replace( " ", " " )
.Replace( " ", " " );
To determine the operating system use this code:
string OPSystemVersion = Environment.OSVersion.ToString();
To determine the CPU name and type first add System.Management reference to your project, then you can use this code:
public static string SendBackProcessorName()
{
ManagementObjectSearcher mosProcessor = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor");
string Procname = null;
foreach (ManagementObject moProcessor in mosProcessor.Get())
{
if (moProcessor["name"] != null)
{
Procname = moProcessor["name"].ToString();
}
}
return Procname;
}
Look at the ManagementClass class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.managementclass.aspx
var mgmt = new ManagementClass("Win32_OperatingSystem");
foreach (ManagementObject mgmtObj in mgmt.GetInstances())
{
// Just get first value.
return mgmtObj[info.Information].ToString().Trim();
}