WMI is it important ?

[thefishdude]

ok having some pc/game probs and basically after hours of research on net i have 2 options to fix this, full windows reinstall or turn off the WMI function of windows as the problem is caused by registry corruption involving wmi. read a couple of posts from people that they just turned it off.

but is it ? do i need it ? and is it ok to just turn it off in msconfig ?

would rather find something out before i turn it off and my pc dont start up lol

 

[stealthgeek]

its Windows Management Instrumentation - used for getting data from your PC. We use it at my work for monitoring servers, but its also useful if you ever need to manage someone's PC from yours in Computer Management.

go here to get a diagnostics utility that should tell you how to fix your WMI issues:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/help/wmidiag.mspx

 

[thefishdude]

ok wi ll get that thanks see what it sais. for moment i have turned wmi off. all my games now work again.

first time i turned it off and boted pc i got windows error docm stopped unexpectadly shutting down in 60 seconds. no idea what docm is lol anyway pc shut down and restarted and now is find have wmi off and everything still seems to work.