Simple WMI Query

Here’s the basic ways to query WMI from Powershell.

Option 1 : With the class and a filter

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Directory -filter "Name='c:\\temp'"

Option 2 : With the full query

Get-WmiObject -Query "select * from Win32_Directory where Name='c:\\temp'"

More Info

• You can also use the GUI tool wbemtest (builtin Windows)
• You can also use the command line tool wmic (builtin Windows) 
  wmic path Win32_Directory where name='c:\\temp'
• Backslachs (\) have to be escaped in your query (\\)