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Advantages of WMIC command in Windows

Windows Management Instrumentation Command, the WMI command-line (WMIC) utility provides a command-line interface for WMI. WMIC is compatible with existing shells and utility commands.

A numerous software’s are available to do this task in a very efficient manner and give you a lot of information about your system hardware and software installed and configured but what if you have dell, IBM, HP or any other brand PC, laptop or desktop system and you are trying to download any kind of software or driver from the respective website and the demand is to put the serial number or model number your laptop (mostly serial number) and you don’t know you can use few very simple commands to do this task.

BASEBOARD            - Base board management (motherboard or system board)
 BIOS                - BIOS management (Basic input/output services)
 BOOTCONFIG          - Boot configuration
 CDROM               - CD-ROM
 COMPUTERSYSTEM      - Computer system [CALL/SET]
 CPU                 - CPU
 CSPRODUCT           - Computer system product information from SMBIOS.

Few Examples of WMIC commands are given as under;

Ultimate List of Windows Commands

Most people say that Microsoft Windows is a mouse oriented operating system that’s true but not very much. Today I like to share a list of windows commands that can give complete command on your keyboard to work on a windows system. Commands are a great source of time saving. These commands will work most windows versions. Check the list given as under;

Windows Commands

Go to Start menu and click on Run to issue these commands

Application Description / Name	Run Command
Accessibility Controls	access.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard	hdwwiz.cpl
Add/Remove Programs	appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools	control admintools
Automatic Updates	wuaucpl.cpl

Boost Windows 7 Performance

Windows 7 is really a great achievement of windows family and a pretty good effort but its not a perfect operating system because of windows heavy hardware resource consumption. You can make your windows 7 faster and faster by applying very simple configurations and tricks.

1. Switch to Classic Start Menu

Windows 7’s Start menu is a powerful thing, offering program and file launching as you type and allowing for smart pinning of whatever you frequently access. If you’re really attached to the Windows 2000/XP-style Start system, restore a "classic" look to Windows 7 by installing a companion Start menu on your taskbar. Default windows 7 menu can take more than required hardware resources, switching back to classic can save a lots of precious system resource for other important tasks.

Windows 7 Free Logon Screen Rotator

Till Windows Vista & Xp there was no support for changing Login Screen background and you have to use third party apps like logon studio for changing login screen background. However in Windows 7 Microsoft has done good job by allowing users to change Windows 7 Logon Screen without need of third party apps.

Here is a cool utility Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator which lets you to rotate Windows 7 Logon background screen randomly. You can select up to 10 images and Logon Screen Rotator will automatically rotate your Windows 7 logon screen.

Free PDF Unlocker and Merger

PDF files can have restrictions that prevent you from for example copying text from them or editing, printing or merging them. PDFUnlock! unlocks PDF files and removes these restrictions. If you upload a password protected PDF file, you will be asked to enter the password. PDFUnlock! does not, however, recover lost or unknown passwords. A …

How to Increase Hard Disk Space in VMware?

VMware is a great tool in terms of virtual installation and configuration of operating systems, multiple examples can be given to support this tool. VMware Guarantee the highest availability of IT services with VMware desktop & server virtualization. Reduce costs, run enterprise applications with the highest possibilities. VMware lets you run another computer in your computer. Try out another operating system, test a different platform, preview a new distro. I think that’s enough to support the VMware platform the real thing is title of this post “How to Increase Hard disk space in VMware”. Unlike other virtual tools VMware don’t let the users to automatically grow their disk space (Disk management selection at virtual machine setup ask you how much space you will allocate this virtual machine) if required by the operating system or large amount of data stored on that virtual machine. There is a simple tool given in the VMware 5.0 and above versions to increase the disk space (There are lots of other options I will share them some other time). Under given is are few simple steps to increase the disk space;

1. Open a command prompt in windows

2. Open the VMware installation folder from root drive

C:Program FilesVMwareVMware Workstation

Search the vmware-vdiskmanager.exe tool

3. Enter the command given as under;

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe –x 15Gb “Path to virtual machine“

Windows 7 Hidden Modes

Windows 7, everybody knows and using it with ease and lots of services better than vista and windows XP but there are a number of hidden modes or services given by windows 7 for better performance and settings that are still unknown for most of the users and administrators. I like to share a few of them with the readers today to make windows 7 easy to use and effective in daily life. These hidden modes are intended for developers as a shortcut to various internal settings, such features have been around since Vista and even before.

These undocumented features provide direct access to all kinds of settings, from choosing a location to managing power settings to identifying biometric sensors.

Free Hidden Themes for Windows 7

Windows 7 has great quality themes but they are hidden at the moment and you need to select an appropriate region to activate them. We select the region while installing the windows 7, otherwise it just stays disable. There is no need to yell and say anything to windows creator, you can manually activate them and use them as you like. Activation process is as simple as eating zinger just in ten steps given as under;

Open Windows Explorer
Click Organize, and select Folder and Search Options.
Go to View tab.

How to Secure Windows 7 with Built-in Tools?

Security check list of windows 7 is a set of security tools available in windows 7 by default to protect your valuable and precious data from hackers and viruses. Use this checklist to make sure you’re taking advantage of all the ways that Windows can help keep your computer as secure and safe as possible.

Action Center

Use Action Center to make sure your firewall is on, your antivirus software is up to date, and your is computer set to install updates automatically.

Windows Defender

Use Windows Defender to help prevent spyware and other potentially unwanted software from being installed on your computer without your knowledge.

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