Trying to setup Kafka on windows and getting 'wmic' is not recognized error

Question

I am trying to setup Kafka (version - kafka_2.13-3.9.0.tgz) on windows 11 and zookeeper is running smoothly on windows but kafka server is not starting up..

When i try to execute kafka-server-start.bat file using below given command

C:\kafka>.\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

it gives me following error ** 'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.**

please tell me what this error is about and how can i solve this error??