The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) information might be corrupted. Help?

Maniac618 · 18 Oct 2006 at 15:44

ok guys here's my little (big) problem,

My Advanced tabs on any network connection in network connections do not show up and simply display the following message:

Microsoft Windows said:
Windows cannot display the properties of this connection. The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) information might be corrupted. To correct this, use System Restore to restore Windows to an earlier time (called a restore point). System Restore is located in the System Tools folder in Accessories.

I can't system restore as it's off.

I don't want to have to reinstall windows over windows (repair) and risk losing data just because network advanced tabs are messed up, so has any really clever tech head got a way to ONLY reinstall the WINMGMT (I think it might be something to do with WBEMODBC on the XP disc I now have to hand.)

Any ideas, please please please help me.

I found this info but the line in bold does not compute/work when i enter it...

Another way this can be fixed is by forcing an auto-recover of the default
information stored in the WMI repository (database).

- open a command window (start > cmd.exe)
- type "net stop winmgmt"
- type "cd %windir%\system32\wbem"
- type "ren repository repository.old" (or alternatively delete it)

Then try your operation again (go back to Advanced properties page). It may
take a minute or so to complete while
WMI rebuilds the database.

Maniac618 · 19 Oct 2006 at 00:40

any ideas please people?

PsiFox · 19 Oct 2006 at 08:56

MS say you either need to restore or repair

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823775

Have you got LitePC

http://www.litepc.com/xplite/wbem.htm

This allows you to uninstall WMI and crucially it's dependent components.

Using this you might be able to uninstall it and then reinstall.

I've used the XP repair and never lost anything by the way. It will revert your XP intall to as per the CD so you may need service packs etc.

Also look here

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm

The_KiD · 19 Oct 2006 at 09:03

stick in your windows disk.

Click START > RUN and type sfc /scannow, let this process run through, restart your PC and fingers crossed all shall be well

smids · 19 Oct 2006 at 10:23

The_KiD said:
stick in your windows disk.

Click START > RUN and type sfc /scannow, let this process run through, restart your PC and fingers crossed all shall be well

What I usually do ^^^

Maniac618 · 20 Oct 2006 at 00:05

The_KiD said:
stick in your windows disk.

Click START > RUN and type sfc /scannow, let this process run through, restart your PC and fingers crossed all shall be well

Tried that, it completed (bar went to full then it dissapeared). After 10 mins I restarted, only to find that after the windows loading screen the desktop wouldn't load and I was faced with a black screen, no mouse, nothing.

So I restarted and restored to 'last working condition' and here I am.

Time to try the other things then. It's still corrupted.

Maniac618 · 20 Oct 2006 at 00:22

I've run WMIDiag.vbs and got these errors, anyone know what to do about them? :

.1229 00:08:10 (1) !! ERROR: WMI ADAP status: .................................................................... NOT AVAILABLE
.1230 00:08:10 (0) ** You can start the WMI AutoDiscovery/AutoPurge (ADAP) process to resynchronize
.1231 00:08:10 (0) ** the performance counters with the WMI performance classes with the following commands:
.1232 00:08:10 (0) ** e.g. 'WINMGMT.EXE /CLEARADAP'
.1233 00:08:10 (0) ** e.g. 'WINMGMT.EXE /RESYNCPERF'
.1234 00:08:10 (0) ** The ADAP process logs informative events in the Windows NT event log.
.1235 00:08:10 (0) ** More information can be found on MSDN at:
.1236 00:08:10 (0) ** http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_adap_event_log_events.asp
.1237 00:08:10 (1) !! ERROR: WMI CONNECTION errors occured for the following namespaces: ......................... 5 ERROR(S)!
.1238 00:08:10 (0) ** - Root, 0x80041002 - (WBEM_E_NOT_FOUND) Object cannot be found.
.1239 00:08:10 (0) ** - Root, 0x80041002 - (WBEM_E_NOT_FOUND) Object cannot be found.
.1240 00:08:10 (0) ** - Root/Default, 0x80041002 - (WBEM_E_NOT_FOUND) Object cannot be found.
.1241 00:08:10 (0) ** - Root/CIMv2, 0x80041002 - (WBEM_E_NOT_FOUND) Object cannot be found.
.1242 00:08:10 (0) ** - Root/WMI, 0x80041002 - (WBEM_E_NOT_FOUND) Object cannot be found.

tried

e.g. 'WINMGMT.EXE /CLEARADAP'

and

e.g. 'WINMGMT.EXE /RESYNCPERF'

but the report detailed the same thing next time i ran the test.

Maniac618 · 20 Oct 2006 at 00:33

Well well well, in the end this worked. Thanks guys for helping...

* Click Start, Run and type CMD
* Type this command and press Enter:

net stop winmgmt

* Using Windows Explorer, navigate to %systemroot%\system32\wbem directory and delete the Repository directory. By default, the repository folder is located in the C:\Windows\system32\wbem directory.

* Switch to Command Prompt window, and type:

net start winmgmt