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wmic - windows management interface
[Link] is the command line interface to the WMI APP's.
[Link] is available on Windows XP Pro. It is not available on Windows 2000 or XP Home.
Here are two good examples of usage:
C:\>wmic process get workingsetsize,commandline /format:csv
This lists the program and the memory usage
C:\>wmic process | sort
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\System32\[Link]
[Link] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\[Link]"
[Link] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\[Link]"
[Link] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\[Link]"
[Link] "C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link]"
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link] \
[Link] "C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\[Link]"
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\[Link]
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link]
[Link] "C:\PROGRA~1\[Link]\MOZILLA\[Link]" -turbo
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link]
[Link] "D:\Program Files\pine\[Link]"
[Link] "C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\[Link]"
[Link] "C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link]" \
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link]
[Link] \SystemRoot\System32\[Link]
[Link] sort
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link]
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost -k DcomLaunch
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost -k rpcss
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\System32\[Link] -k LocalService
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\System32\[Link] -k netsvcs
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\System32\[Link] -k NetworkService
[Link] "C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\[Link]"
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\system32\[Link]
[Link] [Link]
[Link] wmic process
[Link] C:\WINDOWS\System32\wbem\[Link]
C:\>wmic
wmic:root\cli>partition get name,bootable,size,type
Bootable Name Size Type
TRUE Disk #0, Partition #0 4194860544 Installable File System
Disk #0, Partition #1 9475522560 Extended Partition
TRUE Disk #1, Partition #0 8389753344 Unknown
Disk #1, Partition #1 11630545920 Unknown
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More Examples
wmic diskdrive get name,size,model
Model Name Size
Hitachi HTS721080G9AT00 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 80023749120
wmic partition get name,size,type
Name Size Type
Disk #0, Partition #0 65769984 Unknown
Disk #0, Partition #1 79957946880 Installable File System
wmic bios get name,serialnumber,version
Name SerialNumber Version
Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06 99L9891 DELL - 27d50a02
SerialNumber is the Dell Service Tag
wmic csproduct get name,vendor,identifyingNumber
IdentifyingNumber Name Vendor
99L9891 Latitude D610 Dell Inc.
yet another service tag report
wmic qfe get description,installedOn /format:csv
This produces a long list of Windows Patches and when they were installed
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB929969),3/14/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB930178),4/11/2007
PCPC3-D610,Update for Windows XP (KB930916),5/10/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB931261),4/11/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB931768),5/10/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB931784),4/11/2007
PCPC3-D610,Update for Windows XP (KB931836),3/14/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB932168),4/11/2007
PCPC3-D610,Update for Windows XP (KB933360),8/29/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB933566),6/18/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB935839),6/18/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB935840),6/18/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB936021),8/15/2007
PCPC3-D610,Update for Windows XP (KB936357),7/12/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB937143),8/15/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB938127),8/15/2007
PCPC3-D610,Update for Windows XP (KB938828),8/15/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB938829),8/15/2007
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PCPC3-D610,XML Paper Specification Shared Components Pack 1.0,
wmic COMPUTERSYSTEM get TotalPhysicalMemory,caption
Caption TotalPhysicalMemory
PCPC3-D610 1073074176
wmic nic get macaddress,description
Description MACAddress
Infrared Port
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) 00:xxxxxxxxxxx:19
RAS Async Adapter
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (PPTP) 50:xxxxxxxxxxx:30
WAN Miniport (PPPOE) 33:xxxxxxxxxxx:30
Direct Parallel
WAN Miniport (IP)
Packet Scheduler Miniport 8C:xxxxxxxxxxx:53
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 215ABG Network Connection
Packet Scheduler Miniport
Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller 00:xxxxxxxxxxx:C4
Packet Scheduler Miniport 00:xxxxxxxxxxx:C4
Remote wmi Use
Connecting to WMI on a Remote Computer
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