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 ...

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 ...

WMIC is a powerful tool that lets you query Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers directly from the command line or using batch files, and if you’re an administrator then it’s well worth ...

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 ...

A SID or a Security Identifier is a unique code that helps identify any user or group and computer accounts across Windows Operating Systems. They are created as soon as a user account is created and ...