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Old March 30th 18, 01:02 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
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Well, we're working at this a bit at a time, and hoping
it's something simple, right ?

What I notice in your description, is you're missing the two WMI
files. My folder had four files. Your folder has two files.
Both your WMI are missing. Does this imply a WMI thing is broken ?


Your guess is better than mine!

And that gives us another keyword to work with :-)

For example, in this short thread, it almost suggests a "policy"
might be available to switch WMI off. We'll ignore this for
the moment, as this is likely a red herring.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com...-d762-4761-ace
f-e991fdc22033/automated-way-to-enable-reliability-monitor?forum=winserv
ergen

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Reliabili ty Analysis\WMI
WMIEnable


OK, I'll ignore it - except I checked out of curiosity, and: under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows, I don't _have_ a Reliability
Analysis "folder".

*******

In this article, the only thing I'm initially interested in, is the
first line.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...10-performance
/reliability-monitor-view-all-problem-reports-empty/f989f4df-cbf1-4f0b-9
6c1-b52971bda91e

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Reliability Analysis\WMI" /v
WMIEnable /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F

The script likely came from here, and you can change the extension
on the .bat file to .txt and look at this in Notepad if you want.
*Don't* be in a rush to run this. This cleans out the entire
Event Viewer, as well as the two folders used by RAC. Sure it
works, but now you'll have to wait for a day to get enough
data to test the Reliability Monitor. I prefer to turn on WMI
as a first step.


Indeed. When I run the Reliability Monitor, although I have just the
naked grey pillars, if I click View all problem reports at the bottom of
the window, I _do_ have entries - the latest being 2018-3-24.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/downloads/RRM.zip

Here is a picture of me verifying my key is correct in Windows 7.
Make sure yours looks like this.

https://s17.postimg.org/akoq930f3/Re...n7_WMI_key.gif

Because your WMI is missing, that's my guess as to why.


No, I have that key there, with the same value.

While it could be GPEDIT related, like the "policy" key above
we're ignoring, how exactly would that have happened ? I'm more
willing to buy a story, where WMI doesn't start the first time
on its own, and something "bootstraps" it, and turns on that
registry key. But you can have a look and see what is what.

Paul

I await my next instructions (provided they're simple) with interest!
But you don't have to do this for me; until a couple of days ago I had
no idea this reliability monitor existed, so not having it hasn't hurt!


I thought it might be something simple.

I'm running out of stuff to try, so you're "off the hook".

Paul
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