Introduction
Today I replaced my main hard disk in my workstation. This is not something I am usually worrying about because installing Windows 7 is pretty straightforward.
But this time is different: on my latest computer, I didn’t plug any optical drive reader. Why not? Well because it’s heavy, loud, consumes power even when idle, and is pretty much useless… except today.
Here I’ll present the trivial solution that I found.
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7, installation, usb, windows
You should know about that but extracting windows configuration is something very boring. mspaint.exe, screenshot + crop. HORRIBLE.
A good way to extract some information is to use the WMIC utility.
The wmic is a core feature of all Windows since Windows 2000 and most of the commercial monitoring software are using it to extract, analyze and display system information :
Here is a little list of actions you can perform through WMIC utility :
- launch process,
- stop process,
- reboot computer,
- list of installed programs,
- list of installed security patchs,
- etc…
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audit, conf, configuration, win32, windows, wmic
