Filesystem Basics
At its most basic, a filesystem is quite simply a collection of files, hierarchically organized into folders (or directories). It should come as no surprise, then, that two fundamental classes of WMI objects represent a filesystem. One represents a file, and the other represents a directory.
Properties of Files
A file is represented in WMI by a CIM_DataFile object. Every single file on a Windows 2000 system is represented by one of these objects. Each such object can be identified uniquely by its primary key. The primary key of a CIM_DataFile is its Name property. Unsurprisingly, the value of this property is the fully-qualified path to the file being represented. For example, the CIM_DataFile object representing boot.ini, ...
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