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The Registry contains an enormous amount of data, some of which is very useful to the Microsoft Access developer. Microsoft Access VBA allows us to use WMI to access that data. We can get a list of all the System DSNs on a Computer, all of the ODBC drivers, all the Internet Cookies, list the paths o......
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Microsoft Access VBA enables you to store a value in the Registry with just one line of code. You can also read the stored value with one line of code. This is possible using Access’ built-in code which has its own section of the Registry. Jimmy Peña, author of the excellent Code For Ex......
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Microsoft Access VBA can read and write to the Windows Registry by using WMI. In this article we are going to show you how easy it is to read 5 different types of Registry Values with VBA and WMI.
The Registry provided a solution for the problem caused by the proliferation of separate ini settings ......
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You can Stop, Start, Pause, and Resume Windows Services with Microsoft Access VBA by using the power of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). This is called “setting the State” of the Service. This can be useful, for example, if we want to make sure the SQL Server Reporting Services ......
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You can Stop, Start, Pause, Resume, Disable, and Enable Windows Services with Microsoft Access VBA. Access VBA can do this by using the power of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). We are able to do this by using late binding to access the WbemScripting library. With late binding you do not ha......
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Our last two articles were about using WMI to manage Processes which are software programs that run on our computers. Processes are like CEOs that are up front and visible. Windows Services are like the CEO’s Secretary who is the one who really gets things done in the background. Some Processe......
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Microsoft Access can Terminate Processes using WMI. In other words, Access can shut down an application that is running on a computer. This capability is very useful when using Office automation or automation with other applications. For example, you may want to open an Excel Spreadsheet, import dat......
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Are you curious to know what processes are running on your computer? You may be surprised to discover exactly what programs are running and how many run when you boot up. Just a few minutes ago I had 68 processes running. By using VBA to access WMI, I gathered an abundance of information on those pr......
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In our last article we learned that we can access the power of scripting with VBA. This article will show how to get vital information from WMI Classes by listing Class Property names and values.
The Win32_OperatingSystem Class grants us access to a wealth of useful information about the Computer O......
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Lately I have been exploring the powerful capabilities of Scripting and WMI. It was very exciting to discover that it is very easy to convert VBScript for WMI into VBA code that works just like the scripts. While there are a few VBSript functions that cannot be used in VBA, most scripts can be eas......
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