Hi Thomas,
Thomas Niedermeier said:
does anybody know a way to get the serialnumber of a monitor with WMI?
that's a question which many others asked also.
AFAIK there no direct possibilty to read out this information via WMI.
But i've found a thread in german Delphi NG, in which the theme was
always discussed and one of them had written a theoretical workaround.
I think german is not a problem for you, isn't it?
Take a look at:
http://www.delphipraxis.net/post188753.html
There is described, that in RegEditKey
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\DISPLAY\
are listed all CRT's which are connected to your system and
in the subsubkey ...\Device Parameters of the CRT-Key's
exists an entry named EDID. This entry contains a big
hex-string and in this are many many informations and normally
also the SerialNo and Manufactering Week and Year. You can
find a discription of the string at:
http://faydoc.tripod.com/structures/01/0127.htm
On my both systems i can't recognize the serialno, but the
manuWeek and manuYear i see.
HTH
Ciao
Peter
