thanks alot.how can I print these information?(hardware information)

Thanks a lot. This was really helpful :)

C# requires the .NET environment which I’m fairly certain XP do not come with out of the box.

Getting the average luser to install the runtime from Windows Update might just be even worse IMO…

@ ths:

Cool, I check out that app. Nevertheless I sort of wanted to write my own – you know, for shits and giggles. :)

@ Mart:

I did not know that. This will probably be useful at some point. Thanks. Still, I’m trying to roll that into an app so that I can get that info without making users deal with command line.

WMI has its own console it you want to poke around using just the Windows command line. Just hit “wmic”.

I discovered this when I was researching how to automagically uninstall Windows applications silently using a batch file. It’s pretty cool.

there is software on sourceforge.net to solve your exact problem: a WMI inventory scanner which can post its results via http/https.
I still use the predecessor winventory, while the development continues under the new name openIT.
It is VBS code, not C#, but basically it does the same: it collects lots of information and posts it.
The early version winventory creates SQL, not http, which suits me better, while the latter version makes more sense in a distributed environment where you don’t trust foreign SQL ;)