Executive Summary:
| Jim Turner explains how to turn one of his miniature HTML Applications into a gadget for the Windows Vista Sidebar. SysInfo.hta uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes to gather an assortment of system inventory information from a server or workstation and saves the information in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and making it into a gadget is quick and painless. |
In "System Inventory Mini-App" (http://www.scriptingprovip.com/articles/articleid/ 96668 / 96668 .html), I introduced a miniature application that I developed as HTML Application (HTA). SysInfo.hta uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes to gather an assortment of system inventory information from a server or workstation and saves the information in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
I call this HTA a mini-app because it performs just one specific task and because it has very small application window—just 180 x 185 pixels. The application window is tiny because I developed the HTA so that I could easily incorporate it into a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget, which I show you how to do in this article. However, this mini-app also works nicely in Windows XP, where the minuscule footprint lets me leave it open throughout the day rather than minimizing or closing it. . . .
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