UPDATED: Finding CPU Name & Speed in VB 2005/2008/2010 via Registry

Hello -

The audio might be choppy and the video might fall behind, but if you cannot understand the video due to such technical difficulties, just follow the instructions below:

1) Open up VB 2005, 2008, or 2010 - whichever version you have installed.
2) Create a New Project. Make sure it is a Windows Application. Name it whatever you like and press Continue.
3) Resize, configure, and/or adjust your Form1 if necessary.
4) Either add four labels or textboxes (up to you) to the form window. Label two of them anything you want and can identify from each other.
5) Create a Button (no longer Form_Load from last tutorial) and name it whatever.
6) Double click on the button to open the coding window.
7) To make things lot more organized and simple, use "Dim . . . As String" values:

Dim Name As String
* [Name] is a placeholder. Name this whatever you want!
Name = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\SYSTEM\Ce­ntralProcessor\0", "ProcessorNameString", Nothing)
Label1.Text = Name
* [Label1] is whatever you are using - label or textbox.
Dim Speed As String
* Use any name for [Speed}.
Speed = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\SYSTEM\Ce­ntralProcessor\0", "~MHz", Nothing) & " MHz"
Label2.Text = Speed
* Label2 could be textbox or another label name. This is dwfault.
*** Optionally, if you want the title to display the name or speed, just add this after the last Dim:
Me.Text = Name & " - [Whatever you want this to be called}"

8) Press F5 to bug your application and test it.
9) If you are satisfied, save your project in your specified directory.
10) You can finalize your project by editing its assembly information then build it by going to the Build file menu. Your executable will be built in the directory where your project is saved.

In a nut shell, this is accessing registry to retrieve these information. If you cannot display these info in your program, it is likely that you do not have full permission to access the registry, or there could be a typography error in your code.

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[MaddZ3r0]

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