help! WMI Error driving me nuts!

[Eric]

Hi all,

I've searched the boards, can't find any solid answers.

Once or twice a day I'm getting a series of around 10 or so WMI dr. watsons
or "WMI has encountered a problem and cannot run". First of all.. what is
WMI and why is it showing me this error 10 times in a row in 30 second
intervals?

here are the specifics:

szAppName : wmiprvse.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2600.1106
szModName : kernel32.dll szModVer : 5.1.2600.1106 offset : 00012b5a

thanks let me know if anyone can help me out.

regards,

Eric

[Kelly]

Hi Eric,

From a previous post:

WMIPRVSE hosts the provider that sends your events on WinXP. What may help
(at least with XP) is that you can specify the wbemConnectFlagUseMaxWait
which will cause the timeout to be 2 mins instead of the default DCOM one
which is up to 20 mins.

WMI relies on DCOM for remoting which in turn uses RPC which then uses
TCP/IP, so there could be several reasons why it isn't connecting initially.

Suggestions:

1 - In the Management Console\Services STOP WMI and set to manual.
2 - Go to the WMI repository %Windows%system32%wbem and delete the
repository.
3 -Set the WMI service back to Automatic
4 - From %Windows%system32%wbem run "wbemtest" and connect to your
namespace.
5 - Run regedt32.exe. Locate current HKEY_Current_Config. Go down the tree
to System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class. The open the class key and right
click on the sub key 0000 and select permissions and make sure that the
permissions for you [administrator] are "Full".

--
All the Best,
Kelly

MS-MVP Win98/XP
[AE-Windows® XP]

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

Utilities for Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#xp_util


"Eric" > wrote in message
news:rgmNb.101505$ts4.2721@pd7tw3no...
> Hi all,
>
> I've searched the boards, can't find any solid answers.
>
> Once or twice a day I'm getting a series of around 10 or so WMI dr.
watsons
> or "WMI has encountered a problem and cannot run". First of all.. what is
> WMI and why is it showing me this error 10 times in a row in 30 second
> intervals?
>
> here are the specifics:
>
> szAppName : wmiprvse.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2600.1106
> szModName : kernel32.dll szModVer : 5.1.2600.1106 offset : 00012b5a
>
> thanks let me know if anyone can help me out.
>
> regards,
>
> Eric
>
>