BTDTGTTS ? [Wink]

guess since wmi runs as service, it just goes off on its merry way, enumerating whatever you ask it to ... but it aint as tuned as ADSI is for this kinda function... was thinking about a couple things ...

it seems as if all this enumeration of instances happens in the background, proir to the FOR-EACH-IN-NEXT even starting. so even if Ruud did build in a EXITFOR, don't think it would help in this instance.

has anyone run any of the "other" utilities that do this kind of enumeration ? The only wmi browser I ever ran was many years ago, the one that came out with the WMI SDK ... dont remember it taking this long to enumerate - then again - enumerating classes and the schema is fast - its the instances that take for ever.

like i said before, may be room for much improvement in this script. it was built mainly to test multiple instances of ListView. Maybe some mods to the queries or if someone could figure out how to abort a long enum. maybe by only displaying a maximum of 100 instances (something like that) ... but if it takes that long just to start the enum, then I don't hold much hope in anything improving.

But still would like to hear of anyone's experience with any other browsers.