Are you thinking of something like WMI? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/querying-with-wql https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/

Are you thinking of something like WMI? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/querying-with-wql https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/queryi...