Check if WMI is enabled

Question

Hello

Using this code:

Using Search As New ManagementObjectSearcher(New SelectQuery("Win32_Processor"))

For Each Info As ManagementObject In Search.Get

Will throw exceptions if Winmgmt service is disabled on the user's system.

I need to check if the underlying service is disabled and prevent the exception, instead show a message and terminate the rest of code.

If Search Is Nothing... will not work, how do I check?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try the following:

using System;
using System.ServiceProcess;
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Name of the WMI service
        string serviceName = "winmgmt";
        // Check if the service is installed
        ServiceController[] services = ServiceController.GetServices();
        foreach (ServiceController service in services)
        {
            if (service.ServiceName.Equals(serviceName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                // Check if the service is running and its start type
                Console.WriteLine($"Service Name: {service.ServiceName}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Status: {service.Status}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Start Type: {service.StartType}");
                return;
            }
        }
    }
}

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hth

Marcin

Answer 2

Thanks,

Shorter: New ServiceController("Winmgmt").Status

But what about "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winmgmt" > "Start" ?

If value = 4 means disabled, the only question would be that which value to use as default?

Using MyKey As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winmgmt", False)
If MyKey IsNot Nothing Then
MyKey.GetValue("Start", DefaultValue???)

How do you think about DefaultValue???