How do I perform inventory audit of Win95/98 and WinNT computers?
Win95/98 does not support native WMI. Steel Network Inventory uses WMI for performing inventory audits. WMI can be installed on Win95/98 computers by downloading “WMI CORE” from the microsoft website. It can be downloaded from Microsoft’s download pages http://www.microsoft.com/downloads The following registry modifications would be necessary to enable remote audits. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE “EnableDCOM”=”Y” “EnableRemoteConnect”=”Y” HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WBEM\CIMOM “SetupForDCOM”=”1” “AutostartWin9X”=”2” “EnableAnonConnections”=”1” Add up the above keys and add the WMI executable service to start automatically when the user logs in(or simply when Win95/98 starts up. This can be done by placing a link to the executable of WMI “\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WBEM\WinMgmt.exe” in the startup folder.
