How to get software & hardware information from windows (like dxdiag)?

Question

I need to get hardware and software information of Windows like the information we got from dxdiag

Computer module : TOSHIBA l775

Processor

Answer 1

Just want to add a little bit to the answer by las. What you want you use is something called Windows Management Instrumentation. Full details of the implementation is located here.

Basically WMI is an SQL like query language that allows you to query various aspects of the computers infrastructure. The link provided by las appears to provide a decent example.

Here is a link to a sample bit of code that allows you to browse through all the schemas provided in WMI.