Microsoft is killing this 25-year-old Windows tool. Your scripts might break

Microsoft is finally bidding farewell to a tool that has been part of the operating system since Windows XP: the Windows ...

Microsoft Removes WMIC From Windows 11 Beta: What Users Need to Do Now

Microsoft removed WMIC from a Windows 11 Beta build. Learn what the change means for security, legacy scripts, and supported ...
Windows Latest

Windows 11 is fully removing a legacy tool that malware and ransomware have abused for years, meet WMIC

Microsoft is cleaning up Windows 11 and removing multiple legacy features, starting with WMIC, in hopes that it makes the OS ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: WMIC will be removed after Windows 11 25H2 upgrade

Microsoft has announced that the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool will be removed after upgrading to Windows 11 25H2 and later. WMIC is a legacy built-in Windows ...
Neowin

New Windows 11 builds remove Drag Tray and WMIC for Insiders

Windows 11 Insider builds 26220.9202 (25H2) and 28020.2731 (26H1) remove WMIC and Drag Tray, and bring a bunch of stability improvements. Launching File Explorer Home is now faster and more responsive ...
The Windows Club

No bootable devices found in Windows 11

For any PC to start and show you a working environment or operating system to let you work, it must have a bootable device. The bootable device holds the operating system, Windows 11. If a PC fails to ...
The Windows Club

WMIC is not recognized as an internal or external command

The issue occurs if the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) service is not running or stopped. You can check the status of the WMI Service in the Windows 11/10 Services app. If the service is ...