Scripting

This is kind of a two in one situation... [:)]

1. Are system variables the same/similar in VBScript/WMI as that of Windows, for example: %WINDIR% and, what they?

2. Is it possible to get/display/output the version number of a file based on the OS Architecture ?

For instance:

On Windows 32-bit installations, filename.exe or filename.dll is located in: C:Windows\System32

and

On Windows 64-bit installations, filename.exe or filename.dll is located in: C:Windows\SysWOW64

I am using VBScript/WMI as such:

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM CIM_DataFile WHERE Path = '\\Windows\\System32\\' AND FileName = 'filename' AND Extension = 'exe'")

For Each objItem In colItems
WScript.echo objItem.Version
Next

What I need to achieve here is to get the version of this file on either: x86/x64/ia64 from a single script with the use of variables if possible.

As you can imagine, using variables like: %WINDIR% for the Path or in the Path in the above, does not work or am I missign something?

The reason for "variables" is that if by chance Windows is installed to a different drive letter, other than C:, it would use that to then locate the filename.exe and get the version information from it.

This code will need to detect:

- If x86 then get file version from here: X:\Windows\System32\
- ElseIf x64 then get file version from here: X:\Windows\SysWOW64\

Where X: is the %SYSTEMDRIVE% and/or X:\Windows is the %SYSTEMROOT% variables in Windows itself.

Any help would be appreciated.