https://www.verboon.info/tags/wmi/Recent content in WMI on Anything About ITHugoen-usWed, 10 Sep 2008 15:30:21 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2008/09/3-seconds-to-get-system-serial-number/Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:30:21 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2008/09/3-seconds-to-get-system-serial-number/<p>Okay, depends on how fast you can type. Start a command prompt and enter the following command:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>wmic csproduct get identifyingnumber,vendor,name </span></span></code></pre></div><p>In simple words, wmic is a WMI commandline tool. It&rsquo;s around since XP if i am right, but there hasn&rsquo;t been much documentation for it:</p> <p>Some references here:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx</a></li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394531.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394531.aspx</a></li> </ul>