How to Fix wmic is not recognized as an internal and external Command Error in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you if you are
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getting this error message
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wic is not recognized as an internal or
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external command it's a very important
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tool inside Windows which lets you
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manage
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your Windows management instrument
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instrumentation command line and it's a
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command line utility that provides an
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interface for accessing and managing
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data and operations
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so let me fix this error message so for
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fixing this you need to go to the C
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drive and then you need to go to the
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Windows this is a folder and inside this
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there is a folder called as system
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32 which where all your operating system
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files are located
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system 32 and inside this you will find
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out this
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folder
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WBM
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web this is a
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folder and inside this folder you will
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find out your WIC executable will be
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present if you try to open command line
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here and type the same
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command you will see now the command
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will be successful you will be able to
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execute wic command so what you need to
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do is that you need to copy this entire
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path of this folder right click copy and
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then just open environment
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variable and just go to the system
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variable and select
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path and just click edit new entry and
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paste this entire
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path so as soon as you do this just
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restart your
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terminal and again type the same
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command you will see now you will be
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entered into the command line of wic as
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you can see in this way you can fix this
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error message very simply by adding this
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in environment variable thank you very
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