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WMIC stands for Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line

WMIC stands for Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line. It uses the power of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to enable systems management from the command line. WMIC extends WMI for operation from several command-line interfaces and through batch scripts. WMIC gives you a powerful, user-friendly interface to the WMI namespace.

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wmic error (invalid XSL format) in windows7

wmic process get /format:csv What is wrong with this command in Windows 7? I get: Invalid XSL format (or) file name.
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Batch Script is exporting weird characters

I am having an issue with a script. I will post it. It runs fine till it gets to this line: wmic diskdrive list full | findstr /B "Size=" >> %cd%ProductCodes\%Serial%\PCINFO.txt This is what it sends to the file... 楓敺ㄽ㐲ㄱ㈱㤴㈹ര਍楓敺㈽㘵㔰㤲㘶〴ര਍ Any help…
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WMIC lastmodified include in for loop

I am trying to get the lastmodified date of files which have almost the samename (CompactReg00 in common). I want this date to be safe to different date settings so I was thinking to use wmic command. The command work well if I use it like that…
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Query antivirus product in Windows servers, where SecurityCenter2 namespace is not available

On workstations like Windows 7 I use the following command to query AV: WMIC /Node:localhost /Namespace:\\root\SecurityCenter2 Path AntiVirusProduct Get displayName /Format:List But on Windows Server 2012, the SecurityCenter2 namespace is not…
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How to get raw disk access in python (windows) for disks > 2TB

I am trying to get raw disk access using python on windows to drives >2TB using python. Everything works great for disks under 2TB using wmi to find details about the disk size but for a 4TB drive it only sees the first 2TB. I assume it is because…
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Script ignoring exit command and breaking out of function BATCH/CMD

This script I wrote is supposed to parse and pull the IP information out of WMIC. The issue is when it is used on a computer with only 1 DNS server entered, the script fails miserably. It appears to run the :remove function even if the variable DNS2…
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wmic useraccount SID blank spaces/empty lines

I have this two commands to get SID useraccount wmic useraccount where name='%username%' get sid | findstr /b /C:"S-1" > file.txt or for /F "tokens=2 delims=," %f in ('whoami /user /FO CSV /NH') do echo %~f > file.txt both cases (file.txt)…
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Powershell WMIC Datafile Invalid Query?

I have searched and searched, but cannot figure out why this is returning an Invalid query error: wmic datafile where name='c:\\program files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\Firefox.exe' get version I've tried it with an elevated PS as well, thinking that…
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save wmic useraccount where name to variable

How can I save the SID of the current user to variable? Based off of a similar question, the current code is as follows: @echo off for /f %%a in ('wmic useraccount where Name='%username%' get SID') do set "usersid=%%a" echo %usersid% exit /b Is…
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regular win10 updates change SerialNumber

Our software generates a unique machine fingerprint which is used in our product's licensing. The machine fingerprint includes the SerialNumber obtained using WMI from Win32_OperatingSystem (e.g. wmic os get SerialNumber). Lately we have had a few…
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Is it possible to send a file to a printer with a batch file?

How can I use a batch file to send a text file or a .doc or similar, to a printer plugged into the computer through a USB port?
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Program still listed in Control Panel after uninstalling

I am trying to uninstall a program with a C# application and everything works except the program is still listed in the Control Panel Programs & Features. It also does this when I uninstall from the command line using wmic. The program is…
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Text garble in batch script for wmic command

I'm trying to run the batch script to acquired the basic computer information like CPU,RAM and active Network card.Here is my code @Echo OFF set newline=^& echo. echo Manufacturer Information> test1.txt systeminfo|findstr /c:"Host Name" /c:"OS…
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WMI giving me incomplete hardware info (PhysicalMemory)

I have read an almost exact same question regarding this issue already (WMI hardware, get RAM info), and here I'm hoping for more information on this topic. I need to get various hardware information such as RAM serial number, hard drive SN, CPU SN,…
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Escaping strings when using wmic

I'm trying to sart an instance of VLC using wmic I'm doing this mainly because I want to capture the pid of the created process I know the command below works fine from the command line: C:\PROGRA~1\VideoLAN\VLC_117\vlc.exe rtsp://abcd…
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