https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/get-ciminstance/Recent content in Get-Ciminstance on LocodigitalHugoen-USWed, 28 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/check-pc-hardware-powershell-get-ciminstance/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/check-pc-hardware-powershell-get-ciminstance/<p>Someone asks "how much memory does this PC have?" and you open Settings, then Task Manager, then hunt for the label under the laptop. On one machine, fine. On fifteen, it eats the afternoon. Windows already stores the model, serial number, BIOS version, memory modules and graphics card in WMI, and <code>Get-CimInstance</code> reads all of it in one line.</p> <h2>What is Get-CimInstance</h2> <p>It is the <code>CimCmdlets</code> cmdlet that queries CIM/WMI classes. According to the <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/cimcmdlets/get-ciminstance">Microsoft documentation</a>, it returns instances of a class from a CIM server, and without <code>-ComputerName</code> or <code>-CimSession</code> it queries local WMI. It replaces the old <code>Get-WmiObject</code>, which does not exist in PowerShell 7. It works in Windows PowerShell 5.1 and 7.x, but only on Windows.</p>