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Launch Notepad Through WMI
In this example we launch a new process through a WMI method in the Win32_Process class. I have chosen a relatively innocuous application, Notepad, for the purpose of demonstration, but any executable can be substituted here. This capability can be extremely powerful for support personnel dealing with relatively inexperienced users. For example, rather than guide an end user through the user interface, menus, and so on to run a diagnostic tool, the support person can simply pop the tool up on the user's system using a script that invokes it remotely via WMI. This alone can be a big timesaver:

set process = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!Win32_Process")
result = process.Create ("notepad.exe",null,null,processid)
WScript.Echo "Method returned result = " & result
WScript.Echo "Id of new process is " & processed
There are a couple of new concepts in this example. The first new development is the use of the COM moniker notation in the GetObject() call when asking for the Win32_Process class. A moniker is a COM standard mechanism for encapsulating the location and binding of another COM object. This lets you get back a particular object based on the display name. Next, rather than submitting a query through ExecQuery() to get back instances of the Win32_Process class, I have asked to get back the class object itself. The reason for this is fairly simple, but may not be obvious. Creating a new process is not really an action to be taken against an existing process instance. Which currently running process should be the one to launch the new one? Because there is no consistent answer to this issue, it becomes apparent that creating a process is really creating a new instance of the Win32_Process class. Therefore, the concept of a static method, one defined against the class definition itself instead of its instances, is needed. The Create() method for Win32_Process is an example of such a static method; previous method examples have all been dynamic methods&—those that operate against individual instances. Incidentally, the Delete() method is a dynamic method because it typically applies to particular instances rather than the class as a whole.

The Create() method takes several input parameters, but in the example I simply supply the name of the executable I wish to launch, "notepad.exe." Aside from returning a value for success or failure of the operation, the method also returns the ID of the new process that was created. The script displays the method execution results and process ID values after the method is executed and, of course, the Notepad application should appear on your desktop.