wmic

wmic is a “command-line tool designed to ease WMI information retrieval about a system by using some simple keywords (aliases).”

Note: “There is a Linux port of WMI command line tool”.

wmic is deprecated: “text encoding is a mess. Some programs output using the OEM codepage, some use the ANSI codepage, some use the current console input or output codepage, and some can do UTF-16, but usually only to a disk file (e.g. wmic.exe).”

Hence, instead of wmic memorychip get capacity, use:

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_PhysicalMemory | Select-Object capacity

The rest are examples of wmic use. For a full list of commands use wmic -?.

wmic bios

Try wmic bios list full or, e.g.,

$ wmic bios get serialnumber
SerialNumber
PF1JZKC1

wmic cpu

Try wmic cpu list full or, e.g.,

$ wmic cpu get name
Name
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz

wmic computersystem

$ wmic computersystem get name
Name
L07A97UF

wmic csproduct

Try wmic csproduct list full or, e.g.,

$ wmic csproduct get name
Name
20M9CTO1WW

wmic memorychip

Display memory information:

C:\Users\asoko>wmic memorychip get banklabel, devicelocator, manufacturer, partnumber, speed, serialnumber, capacity
BankLabel  Capacity    DeviceLocator   Manufacturer  PartNumber        SerialNumber  Speed
BANK 0     8589934592  ChannelA-DIMM0  Samsung       M471A1K43CB1-CTD  410C6036      2667
BANK 1     8589934592  ChannelA-DIMM1  Micron        8ATF1G64HZ-2G6E1  212DCB8B      2667
BANK 2     8589934592  ChannelB-DIMM0  Samsung       M471A1K43CB1-CTD  410C60C6      2667
BANK 3     8589934592  ChannelB-DIMM1  Micron        8ATF1G64HZ-2G6E1  1DFE21C7      2667

or just

wmic memorychip list full

wmic process

wmic process get name,processid

You can also use queries:

wmic process where ExecutablePath='C:\\windows\\system32\\notepad.exe' get ProcessId

or

wmic process where "name='chrome.exe'" get ProcessID, ExecutablePath