Reader Scott points us toward the lesser-known but very handy Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool. It's a scripting interface that "simplifies the use of Windows Management ...

Once the offer is accepted, helpdesk can then take control of the user’s computer and run WMIC commands on it to troubleshoot the issue. If the users’ computer is managed but running Vista however, ...

Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a ...

Last time I showed you how to get WMI information about hard drive utilization without writing a single line of VBScript. If you don’t have PowerShell but are running XP or 2003 (no, I haven’t tried ...