On Nov 6, 2007 1:18 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We use a script here at work that runs whenever someone logs into > their machine that logs various bits of information to a database. One > of those bits is the CPU's model and speed. While this works in 95% of > the time, we have some fringe cases where the only thing returned is > the processor name. We use this data to help us decide which PCs need > to be updated, so it would be nice to have the processor speed in all > cases. > > Currently, this script is run on Windows boxes only, most of which > have Windows XP on them. Right now I am having Python check the > following registry key for the CPU info: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\ > \DESCRIPTION\\System\\CentralProcessor\\0 > > I've also used Tim Golden's WMI module like so: > > <code> > > import wmi > c = wmi.WMI() > for i in c.Win32_Processor (): > cputype = i.Name > > </code> > > On the problem PCs, both of these methods give me the same information > (i.e. only the processor name). However, if I go to "System > Properties" and look at the "General" tab, it lists the CPU name and > processor speed. Does anyone else know of another way to get at this > information? >
You'd want the MaxClockSpeed property. There's a few other clock speed properties as well, see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394373.aspx. MSDN should always be your first stop with WMI questions, by the way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
