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So there was a topic on the General Help and Support board where the poster mentioned it was not easy to check if the system was installed with UEFI or legacy mode and it got me looking down a rabbit hole. Apparently you can't just whip up a simple WMI query to find that out. But I did find that you can read the output of bcdedit.exe to check if the system is using winload.efi or winload.exe, so then I got stuck because bcdedit doesn't play nice with StdoutRead. Finally I discovered that toggling Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection would make it all work together. I hope this helps someone. Maybe it can be simplified, I'm no expert. 🤨 DllCall("kernel32.dll", "int", "Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection", "int", 1) $aArray = StringSplit(_getDOSOutput("bcdedit.exe"), @CRLF) DllCall("kernel32.dll", "int", "Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection", "int", 0) For $i = 1 To UBound($aArray) - 1 Select Case StringInStr($aArray[$i], 'Windows Boot Loader') And StringInStr($aArray[$i + 3], 'device partition=C:') And StringInStr($aArray[$i + 4], 'winload.efi') ConsoleWrite("UEFI mode" & @CRLF) Case StringInStr($aArray[$i], 'Windows Boot Loader') And StringInStr($aArray[$i + 3], 'device partition=C:') And StringInStr($aArray[$i + 4], 'winload.exe') ConsoleWrite("Legacy BIOS" & @CRLF) EndSelect Next Func _getDOSOutput($command, $wd = '') ; https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/190249-get-result-of-shellexecute/ Local $text = '', $Pid = Run('"' & @ComSpec & '" /c ' & $command, $wd, @SW_HIDE, 2 + 4) While 1 $text &= StdoutRead($Pid, False, False) If @error Then ExitLoop Sleep(10) WEnd Return StringStripWS($text, 7) EndFunc ;==>_getDOSOutput

Hello. Not sure this is the right forum. If I'm wrong, please, let me know. I have a task that I really don't know where to begin at. I have a legacy application built in VB6 (yeah, I know) and lately it has been reported to slow down some of the hours of the day and I'm supposed to have a end-user-experience log for this. I have worked with IE before, doing things like _IEFormGetCollection, then _IEFormElementGetCollection, and manipulating @extended tags, also, _IEFormElementGetObjByName, _IEFormElementSetValue and _IEFormSubmit at the end. Another example is _IEImgGetCollection, then working with the variable properties, like $xyz.src. What I need to do is basically the same. - Collecting GUIForms or elements and Setting values into forms (like _IEFormElementSetValue) - Submitting the info to generate an order on another frame of the GUI, and measure the timing. What I need to know: What function or section to be based upon. I have searched in the help file for over a hour with no luck. I've found some stuff within _WinAPI, GDIPlus, and GUIReference, though I wasn't able to find a suitable function to work with this. I have also searched and read some topics in our forum, but most of them refers to AutoIt GUIs. If I missed something, please, educate me. Of course, I'll post whatever I can share about what could be helpful for other users.