There is no WMI.dll in the standard Rainmeter installation, and I seriously doubt that some 3rd party Rainmeter plugin names its .dll files like that. Even more so, the old way of getting such info using wmic.exe is by now deprecated.I have installed version 4.5.27. In the following folder C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Plugins I am missing the WMI.dll. How do I get this plugin? I would like to display the serial number and model of my computer.
Thanks for the help.
To do what you want, you'll need to run PowerShell in a RunCommand measure, obviously using the proper class name (probably Win32_BIOS, Win32_ComputerSystem or Win32_Baseboard) and property, as per your needs, see the example at the bottom of this page:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/runcommand/
Details about this PowerShell command here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/cimcmdlets/get-ciminstance?view=powershell-7.4
To get the list of all classes to help with the above command, see here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/cimcmdlets/get-cimclass?view=powershell-7.4
If you don't want to use PowerShell, you might be able to retrieve such info via the HWiNFO software instead, assuming it is installed and running:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/hwinfo/
Or, you might try other hardware sensor monitoring tools and see if they provide such info.
Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Today, 10:38 am