Where can I find the WMI documentation?

Question

Google let me down, I couldn\'t find it on MSDN. man wmi doesn\'t work at the windows shell... I\'m looking for a list of objects that I can query, and how to c

Answer 1

As Mentioned Previously WBEMTest is a good tool that is built into windows that helps you explore on top of msdn WMI Documentation.

Personally though I found WMI Studio to be the most complete tool helping understand What Each WMI class really does and how it behaves.

WMI Studio is a bit Studio. It runs as an ActiveX Addon For IE.

It might not be compilable with IE11 so you might have to turn off Enhanced Protection Mode in IE11 to get this working.

WMI Studio.

Answer 2

MSDN WIN32 Classes you can find a list of classes to use in your query here along with example queries