Have you checked out Microsoft's Platform and the WMI SDKs?

The platform SDK used to contain a wealth of example perl scripts using Win32::OLE, although most of them dump rather than set information - they do show how to call & use methods though. Many of the properties accessible in the objects are read-only as per the APIs, so checkout the SDK(or MSDN online) as to whether the properties you're looking at are. Even if the properties are read-only there may be an object method that can be used to change the values.

An example is Win32_Service - all the object properties are read-only, but there is a Change method that will allow you to change a services settings. (such as Startup=Automatic|Manual|Disabled, etc...)

What specific classes/objects are you looking at working with & changing settings for? HTH.

In reply to Re: Perl->WMI? (OT, I know) by blueAdept
in thread Perl->WMI? (OT, I know) by Dismas

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