I am aware of MSINFO32, but I'm wondering if there is a MS DOS command similar to ipconfig in order to get system specifications?
I would like for the system specifications to be displayed in the MS DOS prompt.
I would like to see at least:
CPU
RAM
BUS speed
Thanks for any insights.
Edit: I am unable to install any other software, so just have to use existing DOS programming commands to extract this information. Thank you again.
2nd Edit: Whoops. Using Windows XP and Windows Vista.
WMIC. See here for more info. There's a tonne of info about it on SO too.
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I manage several systems that are using Defender platform version 4.13. They will not connect to my VPN network with a platform version under 4.18. These system are not updating automatically by reaching out to Microsoft. Is there a way for me to obtain a stand-alone Defender package that can be executed to install/update over top of the existing older version?
I tried MS Catalog and run Defender Platform update packages, but nothing happens when I try to run them. I am trying to avoid re-imaging these systems. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I found that there is no way to update the Defender Platform manually that actually works. The main reason, apparently, is that Windows Defender is a huge POS. MS has an AV solution, just to have an AV solution. It doesn't mean that it's a good AV solution.
I support a group of engineers who use dual boot systems with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04, each on a separate SSD. With everyone working from home, if an engineer needs Ubuntu re-installe, they will need to do it themselves. The problem is, that to do this, the person will need to determine which SSD to re-install Ubuntu upon. What I need is a way to tell, from Windows, which OS is on which SSD. I have tried:
diskpart
wmic
PowerShell
System Information
I have found ways to list the SSD and its size, but none of them shows me the OS. In Linux I know several commands to get this information very easily, but Windows has me stumped. Can someone please help me with this?
I found the solution to my problem using PowerShell. I used the following command to reveal the systems disk for Windows:
Get-Disk | Where-Object IsSystem -eq $True | fl
Output of above command
Note both the model number and the first 3 digits of the AllocatedSize. You do not want to install upon the disk with this information.
When installing Ubuntu and are presented with a choice for which disk to install upon, you now know which one not to use. So, you can safely install on the other SSD or disk.
I have installed (and re-installed) Octave 3 times on Windows 8, and I still can't get it right. The first and most obvious problem is that the prompt is missing; the screen only shows the flashing underscore that follows the prompt. This is not a major problem since the system properly responds to commands.
The major problem is that Octave crashes whenever it encounters a syntax error, instead of politely giving a diagnostic. This makes for extremely tedious software development.
Is there a way around this problem, or do we just have to wait for one side or the other to come up with an accommodation?
I encountered the same problem. I solved it by this:
create a shortcut to octave.exe, then right click->property-> change the "target" to something like:
C:\Program Files\Octave\Octave3.6.*_gcc*.*.*\bin\octave.exe -i --line-editing
Then it won't exit if u have syntax errors.
I don't understand the meaning of the parameters yet.
reference:
http://exciton.eo.yzu.edu.tw/~lab/?p=1121
Type octave --help can check the meaning of parameters.
-i also --interactvie, to force Octave interactive behavior.
Maybe Octave run at non-interactive mode at default, that means prompt should not be shown and it should terminate immediately when encountered error when reading a file.
I don't know if this will solve your problem, or if this is too bloated of a solution for you, but I use Octave on Windows 7 through Cygwin without any problems.
If you can't get Octave to run on Windows 8, you may consider running Octave through Linux via computer virtualization technology (virtual computer). Two, off the top of my head that you could use are VirtualBox by Oracle or VMWare Player
Once you have it installed, you can go to any number of sites that have pre-built Linux images that you can download and then run inside of Windows 8.X. Do a Google search of for 'Virtualbox images' or as 'VMWare appliances'. You can then download and use that to run the lastest version of Octave. I hope that helps.
Cheers,
I'm trying to use the Isolated Storage Explorer tool from Windows Phone SDK in order to retrieve data stored in specific Windows Phone Apps' IsolatedStorage and copy it to a folder that resides in my computer.
My computer runs Windows 8 Pro, and i have both the WP7 and WP8 SDKs installed.
The problem is that when i run the command prompt and insert a command line (such as the one below) i get an error that states:
"This app can't run on your PC"
How do i solve this? Thanks
Example:
ISETool.exe ts xd f8ce6878-0aeb-497f-bcf4-65be961d4bba c:\data\myfiles
I'd suggest you try using the Windows Phone Power Tools instead of what you are doing there. It will give you a nice UI to work with instead of trying to get a command line tool to work.
If you really want to use that tool then please post which directory you are running it from otherwise it is hard to tell why it won't work.
I have a problem using devcon.exe in Windows 7 for the purpose of removing drivers, it worked fine in Windows XP. However, I can't remove the drivers using "dp_delete" and "Remove" in Windows 7.
Anyone has an idea why it might happen?
Thanks.
Download the “Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 7.1.0″ from MS, it is an ISO image several hundreds meg
Using UniversalExtractor (http://legroom.net/software/uniextract), extract the ISO to a temporary directory.
Again using UniversalExtractor, extract the install file "WDK\setuptools_x64fre.msi" to a temporary directory.
In that temporary directory you will find "WinDDK\7600.16385.win7_wdk.100208-1538\tools\devcon\amd64\devcon.exe". This devcon works fine under W7x64 Pro.
Along the way UniversalExtractor will prompt you with some warnings, just click OK.
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Just an idea for another one that have the same issue and can migrate it: you can use wmic instead devcon. Its work better and it's Query Oriented Language (WMI)