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;

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