I used WMIC /? > WMIC.txt to view all of WMIC's commands and at the top of the page it says in red "WMIC is deprecated". After doing some looking on the internet, I found that Powershell is going to be a replacement and that some of WMIC commands may return errors.
windows 10 - Has WMIC been un-deprecated? - Super User
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...#wmi-providers
Code:Windows System Resource Manager Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) is deprecated. Similar functionality is provided by Hyper-V. WMI providers The WMI provider for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is deprecated because the SNMP service is being deprecated. The WMI provider for the Win32_ServerFeature API is deprecated. The WMI provider for Active Directory is deprecated. Manage Active Directory with PowerShell cmdlets. The WMI command-line tool (Wmic) is deprecated. Use PowerShell cmdlets instead. The namespace for version 1.0 of WMI is deprecated. Prepare to adapt scripts for a revised namespace.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ans...-download.html
Considering the deprecation of WMIC, I am attempted to use PowerShell and ran into a problem with deleting $Recycle.Bin in that the "$" produces "can't find path" error. If I replace the "$" with "*" or "?" it works, but this can be dangerous, does anyone know how to use "$Recycle.Bin" and delete it.
Code:Remove-Item C:\$Recycle.Bin -Recurse -Force -Confirm:$false
Haven't tried that specific command myself, but have you tried escaping the $ with a back tick ` like so:
Remove-Item C:\`$Recycle.Bin -Recurse -Force -Confirm:$false
eg. this does work to get the Recursed Child-Items in C:\$Recycle.Bin (from an admin ps console)
Get-childitem -force -path C:\`$Recycle.Bin -recurse
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