3 seconds to get system serial number

Okay, depends on how fast you can type. Start a command prompt and enter the following command:

wmic csproduct get identifyingnumber,vendor,name

In simple words, wmic is a WMI commandline tool. It’s around since XP if i am right, but there hasn’t been much documentation for it:

Some references here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394531.aspx

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