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getmac does the same thing and is built into Windows.
– MDMarra
Commented Nov 9, 2009 at 12:07
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that's not called reinventing the wheel. That's called "there are many ways to do things". vbscript works almost in every version of windows , including Win9x. getmac is not available in every version.
– user31894
Commented Nov 10, 2009 at 1:38
Well, it's a Window 7 question, so why bother writing a whoooole script when you can just type a command?
– TFM
Commented May 22, 2010 at 10:03
@TFM: Because the script can give you the MAC address only, while getmac requires output parsing...
– Tamara Wijsman
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 22:11
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@TFM: That and WMI can be used over the network natively, without having to "reinvent the wheel" with SSH/psexec/WS-Remoting. Just change strComputer.
– grawity_u1686
Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 22:13

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