bioswmic

What "wmic bios get serialnumber" actually retrieves?

I wonder what sort of serialnumber wmic bios get serialnumber Windows commad actually gives you?

Is it serial number of your motherboard? Documentation is not clear about it.

Solution

  • the wmic bios get serialnumber command call the Win32_BIOS wmi class and get the value of the SerialNumber property, which retrieves the serial number of the BIOS Chip of your system.