WMIC and Windows XP

This is for all you Windows XP users out there…who may need WMIC examples.

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wmic – windows management interface

wmic.exe is the command line interface to the WMI APP’s.

wmic.exe 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

alg.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\alg.exe
ccApp.exe “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe”
ccEvtMgr.exe “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe”
ccSetMgr.exe “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe”
cmd.exe “C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe”
csrss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe \
DefWatch.exe “C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\DefWatch.exe”
explorer.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
mozilla.exe “C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILLA.ORG\MOZILLA\MOZILLA.EXE” -turbo
nvsvc32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
pine.exe “D:\Program Files\pine\pine.exe”
Rtvscan.exe “C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan.exe”
rundll32.exe “C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE” \
services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
smss.exe \SystemRoot\System32\smss.exe
sort.exe sort
spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost -k DcomLaunch
svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost -k rpcss
svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalService
svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService
VPTray.exe “C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\VPTray.exe”
wdfmgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdfmgr.exe
winlogon.exe winlogon.exe
wmic.exe wmic process
wmiprvse.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe

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

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
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