WMI means '''W'''indows '''M'''anagement '''I'''nstrumentation. It's a way / api and specification, well, to manage [Microsoft Windows] systems based on [COM] and [DCOM]-Interfaces. For a deeper explanation, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation (English) or http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentations (German). ---- See [Matthias Hoffmann - Tcl-Code-Snippets - tcom & wmi - Examples] for WMI examples using [tcom]. ---- See [TWAPI and WMI] and [Handling WMI events using TWAPI] for WMI examples using [TWAPI]. <> Windows