Microsoft's latest addition to the Windows 11 scrapheap is the WMI command line utility

It may be the longest, slowest death of any deprecated piece of software, but Microsoft is inching closer to the complete killing off of the WMI command line utility. It is now eight years since Microsoft deprecated the Windows Management Instrumentation Command line (WMIC), but the utility was converted into a Feature on Demand in Windows 11 22H2. However, starting now in Insider builds -- and later in the year for release builds -- WMIC will be disabled by default. See also: The change is one that will not affect the vast majority of Windows 11 users. Providing a command-line… [Continue Reading]