System Management Functions (Compact 2013)

3/28/2014

The following tables show the system management functions with a description of the purpose of each.

Function	Description
GetDeviceUniqueID	Returns an application-specific hash of the device identifier. The application can use this hash to uniquely identify the device.
GetSystemInfo	Returns information about the current system.
GetVersionEx	Obtains extended information about the OS version that is currently running.
IsProcessorFeaturePresent	Retrieves information about the supported x86 processor features in your system.
KernelIoControl	Provides the kernel with a generic I/O control for carrying out I/O operations.
QueryInstructionSet	Checks what instruction set is supported on the OS.
SignalStarted	Signals that an application has started and initialization is complete.
VerQueryValue	Returns selected version information from the specified version information resource.

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