WMISystem

A system that performs WMI queries.

WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/wmi-start-page)

Base class: Subsystem

Constructors

__init__(self)

Methods

isDevicePresent(self, deviceId: str) -> bool

Performs a WMI query against the Win32_PnPEntity WMI table to determine if a device with the given hardware ID is present on the system. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cimwin32prov/win32-pnpentity?redirectedfrom=MSDN)

Parameters:

• deviceId: The name of the device to check for presence. This is matched against the HardwareID column in the Win32_PnPEntity table.

Returns True if the device is present, False otherwise.