Tip: Windows internals using wmi

[John J. Lee]

"Colin Brown" <cbrown at metservice.com> writes:

> "MetalOne" <jcb at iteris.com> wrote in message
> news:92c59a2c.0310031541.e8ddc48 at posting.google.com...
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> The documentation for Win32_Environment (Google Win32_Environment) says that
> wmi returns registry information but does not provide methods for changing them.
[...skip to a quote from MS docs...]
> environment. You can use WMI to automate administrative tasks (such as
> editing the registry) in an enterprise environment. You can use WMI in
[...back to MetalOne...]
> These are well worth a look if you want to know what wmi is all about. Table
> 1 indicates that you use the "Registry provider"  wmi interface for
> modifying registry settings. I do not know if the python wmi interface
[...]

So it *does* allow hanging registry information?  You seem to be
contradicting your own introduction.


John