Thanks for the tip NetWallah. Unfortunately I'm not having much luck with this example. I get a  Use of unintialized value $colDisks in concatenation (.) or string at line 27.error. I did get one of the examples to work so it's not all bad. I think I'll need to suck it up and study COM and/or Windows scripting stuff for a while to understand what WMI and SWbemServices are. Maybe then I'll have a clue.

If anyone reading this might have a tip for a good book on this, that would be good. I'm not a programmer(Yet. That's why I'm studying Perl) so I assume it would have to be VB, VBscript, or something basic like that. As opposed to .net?

In reply to Re^2: Error: Read a PPD for 'Win32-Lanman', but ..not intended ..for this build (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10) by gctaylor1
in thread Error: Read a PPD for 'Win32-Lanman', but ..not intended ..for this build (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10) by gctaylor1

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