Windows Meterpreter features many new capabilities with the help of an extended API. The extended API provides easy access to clipboard manipulations, query services, Windows enumeration, and ADSI queries.
To load extended API in Metasploit, we merely need to use the load command followed by extapi, as shown in the following screenshot:
Running the preceding command unlocks a variety of functions in the Meterpreter console that can be viewed by typing ? into the Meterpreter console, as follows:
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