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I need a tool that can scan a PC and detect it's hardware devices. The problem with most tools (such as AIDA) is that it doesn't detect the devices which are actually attached to a PC...I need a script to scan all active ports and the hardware that't attached to them.
Are you writing some kind of diagnostic tool? There are many of them out there, google it, I'm sure you'll find something. By the way, I don't think PHP can do stuff like that, but correct me if I'm wrong.
thanx for your "help"...first of all I'm not asking for "yet-another-scanning tool"...I'm well aware of most of scanning tools that can be found on the net and by google. Most of them aren't free and the rest isn't enough. For example I ran a few on my PC and all of the software rely on the drivers that installed or was once installed. Some detect tools see the "Adobe Distiller" and Fax as a printer...which are (as I know) logical devices. I need to find out that' exactly attached to the PC at the time of the scan.
Another problem I have is that no tool can specify the size of the monitor. Especially if it is a laptop.
I hope I'm wrong and I'm just a "kiddie" ....and there is a way to solve my problems