WMIC output to text blank on some computers but not others

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So I understand that WMIC outputs to Unicode, and most applets and commands uses (and deals with) ANSI. One of the ways to deal with this is to pipe the output to the MORE command.

It's a startup script run in the context of a Computer Administrator as a group policy.

That seems to work on some computers, and not with others. The computers are Windows 7 Enterprise x86 and x64.

Commands that I use to process the output don't work (using "find" command"). When you open these log files it outputs, it's blank except for having a few blank lines (like someone hit Enter key without anything else).

Any ideas why this is happening and how to work around this?

Edit: I'm not sure if it's related, but I spot checked a few PCs to see if I can find any coorlation between the working ones and the non-working ones.

The 2 PCs I checked that were "broken" had version

6.1.7601.24214

6.1.7601.24024

The 2 PCs I checked that were fine have:

6.1.7601.24117

6.1.7601.23391

To find the versions, I UNC'd into C:\Windows\System32 and checked the version of the ntoskrnl.exe file.

 

 

 

 

 

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