Retrieve Dell Service Tag from DOS If you ever needed to retrieve Dell Service Tag from DOS, this works remotely or if you are unable to read the tag on the case below is the syntax to retrieve the Dell service tag by querying Windows WMI service via the DOS command line using the WMIC […]
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List installed Windows updates from the command line / DOS
List installed Windows updates from the command line / DOS It is easier than most would think to List installed Windows updates from the command line / DOS. This can come in handy if you have two identical machines and one is having an issue. You could save the output from both systems and use something […]
Manual Installation of a Dell Driver Pack on a local machine
Manual Installation of a Dell Driver Pack on a local machine If you’ve ever had to re-load a laptop from scratch, you know that it can be a pain to have to re-install all of the systems drivers one by one and can take hours to do so. After digging into different ways to create […]
Prevent Silverlight from showing up under Windows Updates FOR GOOD!
Prevent Silverlight from showing up under Windows Updates One thing that’s annoying is that Windows 7 with SP1 and Windows 8 and 8.1 all have Silverlight baked into the OS for minimum functionality. The truth is though that most people never use it unless they are running Netflix which is also in the process of […]
Get list of software installed from a remote computer via WMIC from DOS
Get list of software installed from a remote computer Have you ever needed to get a quick local inventory of installed software across your network? You can use the WMIC command from the DOS CLI. Simply run the following command: wmic /user:”localhost\UserName” /password:”UsersPassword” /node:”RemoteHostname” product get name,version,vendor You can copy and paste this to a […]