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  2. Windows Management Instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    WMIC.exe is available on all Windows versions since Windows XP. Typing wmic /? at the command-line displays a complete list of the switches and keywords. In Windows 11 21H2, wmic /? displays "WMIC is deprecated.", followed by the help text (WMIC is still fully functional). In Windows 11 24H2, WMIC is not installed by default, and is available ...

  3. CPUID - Wikipedia

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    These return the processor brand string in EAX, EBX, ECX and EDX. CPUID must be issued with each parameter in sequence to get the entire 48-byte ASCII processor brand string. [159] It is necessary to check whether the feature is present in the CPU by issuing CPUID with EAX = 80000000h first and checking if the returned value is not less than ...

  4. List of computer technology code names - Wikipedia

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    Windsor — AMD Athlon 64 X2/FX 90 nm processor (Socket AM2 w/ DDR2-800) Wolfack — Windows NT"Cluster Server" Wolfdale — code name for a processor from Intel; Wolverine — Red Hat Linux 7.0.91; Wombat — Arch Linux 0.7-beta1; Wombat 33 — Apple Macintosh Quadra 800; Wonderboy — Trustix Secure Linux 2.2-beta1

  5. System Management BIOS - Wikipedia

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    In computing, the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. [1] This eliminates the need for the operating system to probe hardware directly to discover what devices are present in the computer.

  6. Shell (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs. In general, operating system shells use either a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI), depending on a computer's role and particular operation. It is named a shell because it is the outermost layer ...

  7. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    286—Intel 80286 processor; 2B1Q—2 binary 1 quaternary; 2FA—Two-factor authentication; 2GL—second-generation programming language; 2NF—second normal form; 3GL—third-generation programming language; 3GPP—3rd Generation Partnership Project – 3G comms; 3GPP2—3rd Generation Partnership Project 2; 3NF—third normal form; 386 ...

  8. Windows XP editions - Wikipedia

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    Windows Management Instrumentation Console (WMIC): WMIC is a command-line tool designed to ease WMI information retrieval about a system by using simple keywords (aliases). The ability to switch hard disk storage type from Basic to Dynamic and vice versa.

  9. Uptime - Wikipedia

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    At the command prompt, this can be done using the wmic command: C:\> wmic os get lastbootuptime LastBootUpTime 20110508161751.822066+060 The timestamp uses the format yyyymmddhhmmss.nnn , so in the above example, the computer last booted up on 8 May 2011 at 16:17:51.822.