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# PowerShell: Get Monitor Serial Number
- URL: https://www.filipkonopik.com/powershell-get-monitor-serial-number/
- Published: 2026-07-27T06:49:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-06T05:40:26.000Z
- Author: Filip Konopík
- Tags: Peripherals & Power

Need to check a monitor's serial number - for asset tracking, warranty lookups, or hardware inventory? This one-liner pulls it from the display driver and decodes it into readable text.

Prerequisites:

- Privileges: None
- Module: Built-in, no import needed

Quick Command:

```powershell
$monitor = Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -ClassName WmiMonitorID
($monitor.SerialNumberID | Where-Object { $_ -ne 0 } | ForEach-Object { [char]$_ }) -join ""
```

Example Output:

```Powershell
1O0R1HA011161
```

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How It Works:

- Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\\wmi -ClassName WmiMonitorID queries monitor identification data - unlike most hardware info covered so far, this lives in the root\\wmi namespace, which holds driver-supplied hardware telemetry (like EDID data sent by the display), separate from the standard root\\cimv2 namespace.
- SerialNumberID doesn't return readable text directly - it comes back as an array of numbers (ASCII character codes), often padded with trailing zeros to a fixed length.
- Where-Object { $\_ -ne 0 } strips out those padding zeros, since they aren't valid characters.
- ForEach-Object { \[char\]$\_ } converts each remaining number into its corresponding character (e.g. 49 becomes "1", 79 becomes "O").
- \-join "" combines all the individual characters back into a single readable string.