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How to Find Your Windows PC's Serial Number

Open Command Prompt or PowerShell and enter "wmic bios get serialnumber" to find your PC's serial number. Windows and System Information won't display your PC's serial number. If the command doesn't ...
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Do Custom PCs Have Serial Numbers? (And What To Do If You Need One)

There are all kinds of reasons why you might want to check out your PC's serial number. You might need to provide it to your employer, or you might want to check it while troubleshooting technical ...
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How to Locate Your Laptop's Unique Serial Number

Quick methods for discovering your laptop's serial number for technical support, security, and more Reviewed by Jon Fisher You can quickly find your laptop's serial number by entering a simple command ...
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Here's What A Computer's Serial Port Was For (And Where It's Still Necessary)

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...
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Can you set hard disk serial number in hyper-v VM?

I have some software (written in-house) that I want to run in a Hyper-V VM, hosted on Win11 Pro. The VM is running Win10 Pro. The software licensing fails, because it can't see a hdd model or serial ...