How to get unique id of a mouse - windows

Question

I want to get a unique id of a mouse provided that every mouse brand is the same in a laboratory.
I have tried using WMIC to get device attributes. My VBS script is this:
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
"SELECT * FROM Win32_PointingDevice",,48)
Wscript.Echo "DeviceID: " & objItem.DeviceID
I have tried generating this script with different mouse brand and it outputs a unique device id. But when I use the same model/brand of mouse, the same device id is generated. Please help me find a unique data to be used to identify every mouse in a laboratory.

Answer 1

I think Thangadurai is right with his comment do your original question... However, you could try to find desired mouse id running next code snippets.
The simpliest solution with wmic:
wmic path Win32_PointingDevice get * /FORMAT:Textvaluelist.xsl
About the same output with vbScript: use cscript 28273913.vbs if saved as 28273913.vbs.
' VB Script Document
option explicit
' NameSpace: \root\CIMV2 Class : Win32_PointingDevice
' D:\VB_scripts_help\Scriptomatic
'
On Error GOTO 0
Dim arrComputers, strComputer, objWMIService, colItems, objItem
Dim strPowerManagementCapabilities
arrComputers = Array(".")
WScript.Echo "NameSpace: \root\CIMV2 Class : Win32_PointingDevice"
For Each strComputer In arrComputers
WScript.Echo "..."
WScript.Echo "=========================================="
WScript.Echo "Computer: " & strComputer
WScript.Echo "=========================================="
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
"SELECT * FROM Win32_PointingDevice", "WQL", _
wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly)
For Each objItem In colItems
WScript.Echo "Availability: " & objItem.Availability
WScript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerErrorCode: " & objItem.ConfigManagerErrorCode
WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerUserConfig: " & objItem.ConfigManagerUserConfig
WScript.Echo "CreationClassName: " & objItem.CreationClassName
WScript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
WScript.Echo "DeviceID: " & objItem.DeviceID
WScript.Echo "DeviceInterface: " & objItem.DeviceInterface
WScript.Echo "DoubleSpeedThreshold: " & objItem.DoubleSpeedThreshold
WScript.Echo "ErrorCleared: " & objItem.ErrorCleared
WScript.Echo "ErrorDescription: " & objItem.ErrorDescription
WScript.Echo "Handedness: " & objItem.Handedness
WScript.Echo "HardwareType: " & objItem.HardwareType
WScript.Echo "InfFileName: " & objItem.InfFileName
WScript.Echo "InfSection: " & objItem.InfSection
WScript.Echo "InstallDate: " & WMIDateStringToDate(objItem.InstallDate)
WScript.Echo "IsLocked: " & objItem.IsLocked
WScript.Echo "LastErrorCode: " & objItem.LastErrorCode
WScript.Echo "Manufacturer: " & objItem.Manufacturer
WScript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
WScript.Echo "NumberOfButtons: " & objItem.NumberOfButtons
WScript.Echo "PNPDeviceID: " & objItem.PNPDeviceID
WScript.Echo "PointingType: " & objItem.PointingType
If Isnull( objItem.PowerManagementCapabilities) Then
strPowerManagementCapabilities=""
Else
strPowerManagementCapabilities=Join(objItem.PowerManagementCapabilities, ",")
End If
WScript.Echo "PowerManagementCapabilities: " & strPowerManagementCapabilities
WScript.Echo "PowerManagementSupported: " & objItem.PowerManagementSupported
WScript.Echo "QuadSpeedThreshold: " & objItem.QuadSpeedThreshold
WScript.Echo "Resolution: " & objItem.Resolution
WScript.Echo "SampleRate: " & objItem.SampleRate
WScript.Echo "Status: " & objItem.Status
WScript.Echo "StatusInfo: " & objItem.StatusInfo
WScript.Echo "Synch: " & objItem.Synch
WScript.Echo "SystemCreationClassName: " & objItem.SystemCreationClassName
WScript.Echo "SystemName: " & objItem.SystemName
WScript.Echo "."
Next
Next
Function WMIDateStringToDate(dtmDate)
WMIDateStringToDate = ( Left(dtmDate, 4) & "/" & _
Mid(dtmDate, 5, 2) & "/" & Mid(dtmDate, 7, 2) _
& " " & Mid (dtmDate, 9, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmDate, 11, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmDate,13, 2))
End Function
Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20
More complex than previous wmic example providing possibility to run it against more computers in one step. Note the arrComputers = Array(".") line. Here "." means This computer and could be rewritten by a list of computer names or IP addresses e.g.
arrComputers = Array _
( "computer_1_name" _
, "computer_2_IP" _
, "computer_3_name" _
)