Finding serial number of your computer

Many a times we want to know the serial number of our computer like when we are reporting an issue with our PC and customer support guy asks for serial number before loging our complaint. Serial number is generally available on a sticker on the lower side of laptops and backside of desktops but what if the sticker has worn out or it's present on a 'hard to access' location. wmic is a smart command line utility that will help you with the above scenario.

To easily retrieve serial number of your computer, Goto start -> run, type the following command and hit enter.

wmic bios get serialnumber

This works fine with Windows XP, vista and win7.