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What are the differences between "Windows wmic" and "Windows registry"?

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Mar 15, 20264435 views
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Is all the information that is available via Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line(wmic) also available via Windows registry(regedit)? What are the main differences between them?

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WMIC is an interface to WMI. WMI and the Registry serve similar purposes in different ways. The registry has been around for considerably longer than WMI. Both provide both system and application specific information, but due to adoption levels, WMI…

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