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Miraculous hardware detection challenge
Hi all again. I've been progressing well with my scripts, largely due to the generous answers provided by tsuji (thanks tsuji!!). My current challenge relates to whether or not I can use a script to detect a Toshiba laptop port replicator's serial number. I don't know why, but I have a feeling... -
Extract useful info from EDID registry value
Hi all, I'm writing a script to fetch Manufacturer, Model, and Serial Number of system monitors by parsing the EDID value found in the registry. So far I can get to the correct value with some nested For loops... -
regread, regwrite -- backslashes in name
That works really well Tsuji. Thankyou. I have another question though. I can use diskpart or the disk administrator to change a drive letter, and this change is effective immediately without a reboot. Is there any way to force the system to recognise my change without requiring the system to be... -
regread, regwrite -- backslashes in name
Hi, I'm trying to write a script which will change some drive letters. The key I need to edit is: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices], and the value is: "\\DosDevices\\Q:"=hex:5c,00,0.......1,00,7d,00", where the hex value has been trimmed for readability. As you can see, the value...
