Wmic: Help New

WMIC uses "aliases" (friendly names for system classes) to make commands easier to remember. Microsoft Learn WMIC Command System Info wmic os get caption, version, osarchitecture BIOS Details wmic bios get serialnumber, manufacturer, smbiosbiosversion wmic cpu get name, numberofcores, maxclockspeed Disk Space wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, freespace, size List Installed Apps wmic product get name, version List Running Processes wmic process list brief Stop a Process wmic process where name="processname.exe" call terminate Get Serial Number wmic baseboard get serialnumber Filtering and Formatting Results To make your output more useful, you can use switches: Format as a List /format:list to the end of your command for a vertical, readable list. Export to HTML /output:C:\report.html [command] /format:hform to generate a professional-looking report. Specific Search clauses (e.g., wmic process where "name='chrome.exe'" get processid Microsoft Learn Troubleshooting "WMIC is not recognized" In Windows 11, WMIC is an Optional Feature and may be disabled by default. To enable it: Microsoft Community Hub

The command wmic help new is not a valid standard WMIC command. In Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) wmic help new

wmic help new [class_name] [properties]

Once Windows 11 25H2 is installed, WMIC will no longer be available—not even as an optional feature. Microsoft has confirmed that it will be completely removed from Windows at that point. WMIC uses "aliases" (friendly names for system classes)

wmic [alias] /?