Configure and troubleshoot Windows Management Instrumentation

July 23, 2000 by Snakefoot | 18 Comment

Comments:

1. Tim Ewald says:

   30 January 2008 at 18:07

   Great information! Saved me a lot of hair pulling. Thanks!

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2. badr says:

   6 February 2008 at 19:44

   thank you soo much that was soo helpfull . you are the master :)

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3. Torii Tom says:

   21 February 2008 at 22:17

   The first command (rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository) worked on my PC; thank you very much.

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4. Qiss says:

   2 March 2008 at 21:14

   Great Great Great !!!
   (rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository) worked for me, (i typed it in the RUN console in the START menu, if your reading this and wondering where to type it.)
   Thx alot man, great site and great work....more power to you....cheers again and take it easy.

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5. SHERIFF says:

   3 April 2008 at 11:39

   Big thnx!
   It working!!!

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6. Hydra says:

   12 August 2008 at 13:44

   You are a genius! I've been hunting for days to find this fix and the first thing I've tried on your site did it. Absolutely the best!

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7. bilal says:

   9 July 2009 at 3:06

   yes. this is exactly what i needed thanks

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8. Hans says:

   21 October 2009 at 2:39

   "Die Eigenschaften der Verbindung können nicht angezeigt werden."....
   This solved it.

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9. KevinG IT Asst says:

   24 March 2010 at 18:31

   After searching for 2 hours I found your info. W2k8 Svr St. So simple winmgmt /salvagerepository fixed my WMI and GPO event log related issues. ThanX

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10. Steph says:

    14 February 2011 at 14:54

    Wonderful - thanks so much!!!!

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11. Ryan says:

    30 August 2011 at 19:51

    Should add this for Win 7:

    winmgmt /resetrepository

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12. Akos says:

    12 July 2012 at 17:37

    I was close to jumping out of the window(s (TM)). But my XP SP2 revived WMI after following your instructions

    Thanks a lot.

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13. Anon says:

    28 August 2012 at 19:53

    You are worth your weight in gold. This fixed the following for me:
    * programs failing to install with an error of failing to connect to Windows Installer
    * unable to connect to WMI Tester
    * When checking Dependencies tab in Services had some error about service dependencies interface class not registered.

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14. Anon says:

    28 August 2012 at 22:23

    I also found this script useful as found here:
    http://jeffwouters.nl/index.php/2011/04/wmi-error-when-viewing-dependencies-of-services/

    @echo on
    cd /d c:\temp
    if not exist %windir%\system32\wbem goto TryInstall
    cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem
    net stop winmgmt
    winmgmt /kill
    if exist Rep_bak rd Rep_bak /s /q
    rename Repository Rep_bak
    for %%i in (*.dll) do regsvr32 -s %%i
    for %%i in (*.mof,*.mfl) do Mofcomp %%1
    net start winmgmt
    goto end

    :FixSrv
    if /I (%1) == (wbemcntl.exe) goto End
    if /I (%1) == (mofcomp.exe) goto End
    %1 /RegServer

    :TryInstall
    if not exist wmicore.exe goto End
    wmicore /s
    net start winmgmt
    :End

    This script basically re-registers all *.dll, *.mof and *.mfl files related to the service

    However I needed to change this line from:
    for %%i in (*.mof,*.mfl) do Mofcomp %%1
    to:
    for %%i in (*.mof,*.mfl) do Mofcomp %%i
    ^ Changed the number 1 to a letter i.

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15. Devulsky says:

    2 October 2012 at 8:39

    Thank you! Repair/rebuild/reset the WMI repository works. Now my Windows 7 is not freezen anymore.

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16. Tonimoroni says:

    1 February 2013 at 19:34

    Took me all day to find you, but so worth it.

    I just cut and pasted this - rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository - into Run box and WMI was restored in XP.

    Thank you so much!

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17. Rick K says:

    4 February 2013 at 4:28

    Did the trick. Saved me from crazy and going thru a lot of crap.

    Much Appreciated

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18. ss says:

    18 December 2015 at 23:05

    Great

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