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I have several vbs scripts using WMI working. They are accessing \root\DCIM\SYSMAN and checking various things (These are provided by Dell OMCI).

I am trying to get temperature from my Dell Precision M6600 laptop. However the Dell numeric sensors in WMI do not work correctly. Therefore I am getting temperature from \root\WMI specifically MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature.

However, unlike my other WMI scripts for this one i need to run as Administrator or Disable UAC (which is essentially running as admin) or i get an access denied error code. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get this information out of WMI while not running as admin a better way to get temperature programmatically? Code below.

strComputer = "." 
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\WMI") 
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
     "SELECT * FROM MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature WHERE InstanceName = 
    'ACPI\\ThermalZone\\THM__0'",,48)
 For Each objItem in colItems 
     Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
     Wscript.Echo "MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature instance"
     Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
     Wscript.Echo "Active: " & objItem.Active

     If isNull(objItem.ActiveTripPoint) Then
         Wscript.Echo "ActiveTripPoint: "
     Else
         Wscript.Echo "ActiveTripPoint: " & Join(objItem.ActiveTripPoint, ",")
     End If

     Wscript.Echo "ActiveTripPointCount: " & objItem.ActiveTripPointCount
     Wscript.Echo "CriticalTripPoint: " & objItem.CriticalTripPoint
     Wscript.Echo "CurrentTemperature: " & objItem.CurrentTemperature
     Wscript.Echo "InstanceName: " & objItem.InstanceName
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