What is a Serial Number?
A serial number is a unique identifying number or group of numbers and letters assigned to an individual device, serial number can be found on both hardware and software.
The term serial number is often shortened to just S/N or SN, especially when the word precedes an actual serial number on something. Serial numbers are sometimes, but not often, referred to as serial codes.
Have you ever been in a situation whereby you need to know the serial number of your PC but could not find it written on any part of the body? You can still know your serial number using command prompt, so without wasting any time, let’s see how can you find laptop serial number using command prompt???
A serial number is a unique identifying number or group of numbers and letters assigned to an individual device, serial number can be found on both hardware and software.
The term serial number is often shortened to just S/N or SN, especially when the word precedes an actual serial number on something. Serial numbers are sometimes, but not often, referred to as serial codes.
Have you ever been in a situation whereby you need to know the serial number of your PC but could not find it written on any part of the body? You can still know your serial number using command prompt, so without wasting any time, let’s see how can you find laptop serial number using command prompt???
Quick command that you can use to find the Serial Number of your machine.
To find the serial number, open command prompt (cmd) and type the following command.
It will give you your computer’s serial number by pulling the information from BIOS. This is how it will look like.
wmic bios get serialnumberNOTE: The word serial and number should be together. It might interest you to know what WMIC means (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-Line)
It will give you your computer’s serial number by pulling the information from BIOS. This is how it will look like.
From my own experience, you could get as many error as possible, so don't be confused if you are not getting what you are expecting, just take time and type the commands to avoid errors like this bellow.
Hope you enjoyed this
Cmd and wmic are great, I also collect RAM, Disk, and software information using WMIC and it work perfectly both for local and remote computer. I wrote them here.
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