Questions tagged [wmic]
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Change AD Computer Description via CSV and Powershell
I'm fairly new to scripting in PowerShell, therefore, please pardon my skill...
I have this mini project to update AD computers descriptions based on the following format from a CSV file I have:
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Terminating a Process from CMD: Softest to Hardest
I was wondering if anyone had experience using command line to terminate processes using taskkill and WIMC.
I was wondering if anyone knew the order of how "hard" of a close/terminate these commands ...
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How to create a service with WMIC?
I wrote a service program with WinAPI functions with c++ And I want to create that by wmic.exe in service manager with bellow command :
service create name="test" where path = "C:\Users\msi\Desktop\...
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List all user accounts in a Windows Domain group via Command Line?
I would like to find\create a command to list all user accounts with all details on a Windows Domain Controller (Server 2012 R2) from a specified group.
Using "net users" would be perfect, but I have ...
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WMIC batch file to loop through CSV and get drive status
I am using this code to check the drive health status of remote PC's in my company
for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in (C:\temp\HOSTNAMES.csv) do (
WMIC /Node:%%a DiskDrive GET Caption, Status
)
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What is the significance of video card DeviceID from WMIC?
I'm using a batch script on Windows 10 to gather client hardware information. Some of my clients are laptops with dual video adapters, an embedded Intel graphics adapter and a discrete Nvidia adapter....
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How can I programmatically access the region of a Windows computer?
How can I programmatically access the region of a Windows computer?
Specifically, I'm looking for this value in the Region & Language settings panel in Windows 10.
Or (alternately), the "Home ...
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How to get SID of Windows domain using WMIC?
I’m looking for a WMIC solution to obtain a Windows domain's SID. I can only find solutions for PowerShell, however I prefer the WMIC approach.
Lots of examples exist on Google for obtaining domain ...
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How to fix the directory of an extension's associated program
On my Windows-10 PC, there are some files with extension .dmupgrade. Those should be opened with the program C:\Program Files\<Company>\TaskbarUtility.exe.
I also have another version of ...
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wmic output empty when run from batchfile, but contains info when run from cmd
I have this wmic command which finds out the PID of my process and works fine from cmd, but refuses to produce output when executed in a bat-file:
wmic /output:process.pid process where (Name like '%...
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Get current privacy settings for Windows 10 1803 using WMIC
There is supposedly a WMI provider for the privacy options
I tried
wmic -namespace:\\root\cimv2\mdm\dmmap path MDM_Policy_Config01_Privacy2
but that doesn't seem to be the right namespace
UPDATE:
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Batch File: Output of IF and ELSE Statements Are Reversed Within Menu Script
THE PROBLEM: When the If (goto) statement equals "Microsoft Windows 7 Professional", it's going to the else statement, not the if statement. When the first goto statement is chosen, the second goto ...
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wmic + powershell run a command to search and remove files
I want to clean a website before a deploy. In order to do that, I use WMIC to run remotely and Powershell to remove all the files except some specific ones:
WMIC /node:server /user:user /password:...
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How Windows organize the name of the physical disks?
When I execute the following script:
wmic diskdrive get deviceid, model
it returns
\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 ST3802110AS ATA Device
\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 ST1000DM003-9YN162 ATA Device
\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 ...
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Batch file WMIC command output as variable issue
I am trying to get an output from a WMIC command to set as variable, For some reason it does not work. Can someone assist. This is what I am trying to do
for /f "tokens=*" %q IN (' WMIC /Node^:Comp1 ...
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How to get the serial number of the hard drive on which I am working? [duplicate]
For get the serial number of all hard drives in my computer, I use:
wmic diskdrive get serialnumber
But, I want to get the serial number of the hard drive where I am working.
I explain:
I have 2 ...
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Java Process is not killing using wmic [duplicate]
I need to kill java process from a batch file I am using command
Wmic Path win32_process Where "CommandLine Like '%MyApp.jar%'" Call Terminate
I got the output at cmd "No Instance (s) Available"
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Determine RAM latency in Windows 10
How would I determine the RAM latency in Windows 10 using wmic memoryChip or related commands in command prompt or else a related, built-in tool.
I'm not that trusting of third-party software that ...
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mount network share over wmic
hostnames: srv1, srv2, srv3
When opening a powershell on srv2, I can mount a remote network drive on srv3 successfully with this command:
PS > hostname
srv2
PS > net use Z: \\srv3\c /user:...
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Disabling Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC)
What are the steps to disabling WMIC on a windows 2003 server? I have tried looking into the services and only see Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) listed.
Also if disabled, what are ...
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Use WMIC to find process that is using a port
I have been able to view lots of information about a process with WMIC but not what port that is using; like the out put of netstat. Is there any way to do this? I have to use WMIC.
Could I have WMIC ...
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How to change disk drive manufacture's serial number?
I'm able to get disk drive manufacture's serial number by entering the following command in cmd of windows:
wmic diskdrive get serialnumber
Now my question is:
How can i change or modify this serial ...
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Drive mappings not visible in “net use” or “subst”, what kind of drive mappings are they?
A customer is using ExpanDrive for creating network drives. As a result the commands net use and subst don't give any results.
However the command wmic logicaldisk reveals the mentioned drive ...
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Wmic command not found while running cmd through runas command
I open a normal cmd and ranned wmic in two different ways
Method 1:
Open cmd
Run the command :
runas /noprofile /user:AAA cmd
Note : aa as administrator privilege
It opened another cmd with ...
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Why is my monitor showing up as “Generic Non-PnP Monitor”?
This is a follow-up question to this one.
I'm running Windows 7 on a desktop PC with an 27" AOC monitor.
When I run the following wmic command to determine the model of my monitor:
wmic ...
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Get drive index using a batch file
I'm currently playing with VirtualBox and one of the things that annoy me with it is that you have to do such a workaround to get it to boot from USB. So I'm thinking of automating this with a batch ...
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WMI query local administrators including group members
I know how to fetch a list of local administrators on a remote machine via WMI:
wmic /Node:"ComputerName" path win32_groupuser where (groupcomponent="win32_group.name=\"administrators\",domain=\"...
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WMIC Error: No Instances Available after first execution of my batch script
I run cmd.exe as administrator and run this script, the first time I run it I always get Instances Available, I have to execute it a second time (sometimes 3-4 times) to actually print the SID... why?
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How to get CPU, Memory and Network usage of a process(thread) in windows from command prompt(without GUI)?
I need to know how much a process like process.exe uses the CPU/Mem/Net of system from command prompt of windows. I tried several commands like "typeperf" and "wmic" but I can not do the desired. As ...
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Get WMIC Bytes Received/Sent to match count in Windows Network Status Interface
I'm using the following WMIC query in cmd to get the number of bytes sent/received over the network:
wmic path Win32_PerfRawDataTcpip_NetworkInterface get BytesReceivedPersec, BytesSentPersec
My ...
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How to check if an antivirus is enabled through cmd [duplicate]
Is there a WMIC command that will retrieve antivirus installed and its status on a remote server, or an alternate to WMIC?
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How to Create individual text files from a wmic output
I want to create individual text files from each entry in a wmic output.
So far I have
WMIC.exe /Node:localhost /Namespace:\\root\SecurityCenter2 Path AntiVirusProduct Get displayName /Format:csv>...
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What does the following notation mean: \\?\c:\ mean?
I recall hearing someone mention something about de-referencing a path but de-referencing wasn't explained and I don't know what it is.
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Get pdf file metadata from command line
To get the Creation Date value from a file I would use wmic from the command line
wmic datafile where name="C:\\something.pdf" get CreationDate
However, I would like to get the Creation (date) value ...
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Using wmic to get workgroup in a batch file
I'm not really versed in batch file, but I am trying to get the workgroup using wmic. I've been trying different things with the for options. So far this is the best result I have gotten.
for /f "...
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How to query the account which has created a Windows service
Good morning,
I'm writing installation procedure for a product, which embeds a Windows service. In order to install that service, a wrapper is used, referring to a configuration (java -jar wrapper.jar ...
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WMIC output property value without property name
I'm entering something like that
Desktop>wmic environment where(name="PATH" and systemVariable=FALSE) get variableValue
VariableValue
xxx
But I don't want VariableValue to get into output. I want ...
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How to enable or disable services silently?
How to run this command in silent mode?
wmic service where name='HomeGroupListener' call ChangeStartmode Disabled
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'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I need to run this script I made. This batch should copy compiled program on STM32 Nucleo. It uses wmic to find Nucleo's virtual drive's letter by it's label:
@echo off
for /f %%D in ('wmic volume ...
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How to filter shares in wmic
I founded that by command:
wmic share where type=0 get name,path
I can list shares that I'm interested in. I cannot change their share settings or security permission but I want to back up them.
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WMIC Query returning unexpected answer?
Apologies if this seems like a noob question...but I can't figure this out for the life of me. I'm using WQL to query WMI for the Dell BIOS version in a task sequence in SCCM. That WQL Query is below:
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On windows: how to get last modified date (UTC time) of a file with wmic
I wrote the following batch in order to get the last modified date. The problem is that it gives it in clock time and not in UTC time. I know I have the lag in minutes but it is not that simple to do ...
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Windows: how to check for every folder with modify (M) right for authenticated users?
I want to see which directories on my Windows 7 machine can be modified by Authenticated user (you see it when you run icacls c:\path\to\directory),
I wanted to make a batch script but I'm sure there ...
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In windows 7, how to check from command-line if the wifi hardware switch is on or off?
In windows 7, how to check from command-line if the wifi hardware switch is on or off ?
I will show you what happens when you toggle the hardware switch so that you may understand what exactly I am ...
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How to check, from cmd, if a profile status is local or temp or roaming or backup?
How to check, from cmd, if a profile status is local or temp or roaming or backup ?
I there a way we can check the TYPE and STATUS of the profiles in the computer from the command line.
Normally we ...
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batch file to get partial lastmodified string to variable
WMIC path Win32_Directory WHERE name="W:\\foldername" get lastmodified
returns something like this
LastModified
20140612095434.758265-240
I would like to put this in a batch file to assign the ...
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Why does hostname appear in wmic output of netuse?
When I use wmic as shown below, my hostname appears as the first field in the output. I did not do anything to ask for the hostname. Should I just expect that this behaviour will be consistent across ...
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Why OneDrive displays itself incorrectly in wmic?
Try following line in command prompt with OneDrive working:
wmic process get Caption, ExecutablePath, ParentProcessId, ProcessId
You will see that there is one space difference after ExecutablePath ...
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Using wmic to Find if Product Exists
I'm looking to write a batch file that checks to see if a program exists, and if it does exist I'd like to have it uninstalled. This is what I've got so far.
@echo off
(wmic product get name| ...
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Use WMIC to find open files of a process
Is there a way do get a list of open files for a process using WMIC?
Yes, there are sysinternals like HANDLE.EXE that can do this, but you have to get a copy, but more importantly if you are ...
