Questions tagged [wmic]
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Finding rogue process spawning short lived WMIC.exe commands
There is a rogue process on my system spawning very CPU intensive WMIC.exe processes. They are so short lived that I can't seem to interact with them before they finish, but I believe they are causing ...
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Has WMIC been un-deprecated?
For a long time, I've been putting off changing all my WMIC-based commands into "whatever modern junk Microsoft wants me to use now", having spent significant time trying (and failing) to find ...
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What is the time format like 01d15614cbaee92c in Windows Hotfixes?
The timestamp (InstalledOn) format of Windows Hotfixes' is not regularity it is showing various types like MM-DD-YYYY, YYYY/MM/DD, YYYYMMDD and 01d15614cbaee92c.
These values can be obtained from ...
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Parsing Command Prompt Output
I am retrieving disk information via JavaScript with the wmic statement, wmic logicaldisk get freespace,name,size,volumename, which produces the following output, but in a single string.
"FreeSpace ...
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Parsing wmic logicaldisk get Information [duplicate]
I am retrieving disk information via JavaScript with the wmic statement, wmic logicaldisk get freespace,name,size,volumename, which produces the following output, but in a single string.
"FreeSpace ...
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WMIC in Windows 10 is reporting offline printers as online/ready
I'm using WMIC in a Node.JS app to retrieve a list of local printers. The problem I'm having is that WMIC is reporting all printers as "Online" (PrinterStatus 3) and "Ready" (PrinterState 0), even ...
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wmic shows different persistent flag for net use remote drive than it was actually created with
I added some remote drives on my NAS to my laptops system by invoking:
net use \\someserver\ /user:any "anyKey" /PERSITENT:YES
To get access to these remote drives, as I didn't assign a letter for ...
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wmic useraccount command returns failure
On my windows 2012 domain controller I have run the following command in cmd.exe
wmic useraccount where "name='myusername'" set disabled=true
Here are results:
Updating property(s) of '\\...
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WMIC Output Result - Remove Blank Line?
This script does what I want it to do - producing the result in the txt file noted.
(@for /F "delims=" %I in ('wmic path Win32_VideoController get DriverVersion /VALUE') do @for /F "tokens=1* ...
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Is it possible to get a model number or serial number of a peripheral from cmd?
I want to know if its possible to get the model number or serial number of a device plugged into a com port via cmd
Ive tried chgport, mode, wmic path Win32_SerialPort, reg query HKLM\HARDWARE\...
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WMIC Output Result Without Property Name
I'm entering this line:
wmic /OUTPUT:D:\DriverVersion.txt path win32_VideoController get driverversion
The txt file has two lines in it:
VariableValue
XX.XXX.XXX.XX.X
But I don't want ...
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How can i use “wmic shadowstorage set”?
I write in cmd:
wmic shadowstorage set /?
and get to write
Maximum Space - uint64 - Read/Write.
How do I use it properly? I want to change the maximum shadow copy size on windows 10 using a bat file, ...
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How do i retrieve the version of an executable file using Winexe and WMIC on a remote window's machine from a linux machine?
I am currently trying to retrieve the file version of an executable file on a remote host windows machine. I am doing this on a linux machine. The command I've tried is the following:
winexe -U ...
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wmic to disable all network adapters
I know how to use wmic to disable specific network card using below commend, but I would like to disable all network card from the index, could you please tell me what should I change in my command?
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Which is correct for displaying installed updates: WMIC or Systeminfo?
Am applying a "critical" Microsoft patch (KB4499164) to a number of remote Windows 7 (32-bit) PCs. My ONLY option to access these PCs is via SSH and SFTP.
I used a batch script to apply this patch ...
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How to list just hard drive partitions on windows (except dvd-drives)?
I have a .bat file in which there's the following command and can list available drives on my computer :
for /f "skip=1 delims=" %%x in ('wmic logicaldisk get caption') do @echo.%%x
And give the the ...
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Is there a way to get files modified after and/or before a certain time without using PowerShell?
Without using PowerShell or other scripts, and only using built-in Windows command-line programs, I'm trying to find files modified after a certain date and time, but I'm having trouble. This is the ...
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Difference between “delete” and “call terminate” for WMIC
To kill a running process on Windows using its executable path, I could use either of:
wmic process where ExecutablePath='C:\\path\\to\\my.exe' delete
Or:
wmic process where ExecutablePath='C:\\...
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How to repair wmic
I'm getting Invalid XML content error when I call any wmic os operation. e.g.
> wmic os get Caption
Invalid XML content.
I've tried
winmgmt /resetrepository
But it had no effect.
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Using wmic in cmd from booted USB in troubleshoot mode
I am having a Windows installation which fails to boot (BSOD). Safe mode is not working, too. So I created a Windows bootable USB stick and am now in the command prompt from the troubleshoot mode.
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Setting UserAccount/Properties/Environment and UserAccount/Properties/Sessions with Batch file
I just wrote a batch file to create windows users with some default properties.
Mostly using net user and net localgroup.
@echo off
for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=," %%a in (usuarios.csv) do (
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Why isn't this for loop working? Batch
I have a for loop in this script: https://github.com/ITCMD/Explorer--/blob/master/Explorer--.bat
That looks like this: (:ModificationID line 477, called from lines 308 and 329 in :OtherVersions)
set ...
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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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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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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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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?
