📜 VBScript (WSH)
Get Pointing Devices Report to File (VBScript)
Queries Win32_PointingDevice via WMI and writes Pointing Devices to a timestamped text file, handy for scheduled logon/logoff scripts.
GetPointingDeviceReportToFile.vbs
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' GetPointingDeviceReportToFile.vbs
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' Reports Pointing Devices via WMI (Win32_PointingDevice) and writes the results to a
' timestamped text file next to this script.
'
' Usage: cscript GetPointingDeviceReportToFile.vbs
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Option Explicit
Dim objWMIService, colItems, objItem
Dim objFSO, objFile, strOutPath, itemCount
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT Name, Manufacturer, NumberOfButtons FROM Win32_PointingDevice")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strOutPath = objFSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName) & "\pointingdevice-report_" & _
Replace(FormatDateTime(Now, 2), "/", "-") & ".txt"
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strOutPath, True)
itemCount = 0
For Each objItem In colItems
objFile.WriteLine "Name: " & objItem.Name
objFile.WriteLine "Manufacturer: " & objItem.Manufacturer
objFile.WriteLine "NumberOfButtons: " & objItem.NumberOfButtons
objFile.WriteLine String(40, "-")
itemCount = itemCount + 1
Next
objFile.Close
WScript.Echo itemCount & " Pointing Devices written to: " & strOutPath