If it helps, scripting.filesystemobject can do this for you. Although it only works against registered extensions (like explorer) rather than looking inside the file.

Unfortunately, Log Parser can't natively extract extended file properties that are specific to various the associated filetypes.

Does anybody know whether I can use LogParser in order to extract the Built-in properties of file such as MS Word Documents, MS Excel Spreadsheets, etc.?

The command-line parameters (e.g. "-i:FS") are not part of the query. With the COM objects, you specify an input format by instantiating an input format object and specifying it as an argument to the ::Execute or ::ExecuteBatch functions: Dim oLogQuery Dim oFSInputFormat Dim strQuery Set oLogQuery =...

Has anyone sucessfully used log parser to return file system details? And, if so, could you please reply with an example SQL string? I would appreciate it. I'm using VB, and have yet been unable to get the log parser to return the data. (and, yes, VB does have built-in directory functions, but I'ld like...