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How to Repair WMI on a Windows XP System

By Joshua Duvauchelle, eHow Contributor

Instructions Difficulty: Moderate

1. Click the Start menu button in the lower left-hand corner of the Windows XP screen.

2. Select "Run" in the pop-up Start menu.

3. Type "CMD.EXE" (without quotation marks) in the dialog box that appears. Click "OK." This launches the Windows XP Command Prompt window.
If you are using a Windows XP installation that is modified by a service pack upgrade, type "rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository" (without quotation
marks) instead. This will automatically detect and repair a corrupted WMI installation. Close the window and restart your PC.
If you are using a Windows XP installation that is not modified by a service pack, continue to Step 4.

4. Type "net stop winmgmt" (without quotation marks) and press the "Enter" key on your keyboard. This opens the Windows Management Infrastructure
window and the source folder for the WMI data. Note the location of the folder on your hard drive. Its default location may differ per computer and Windows
XP installation.

5. Click the Start menu and select "My Computer." Double-click the C:\\ partition on your hard drive. Navigate to the folder displayed in Step 4. Rename the
folder to "Repository." Close the window.

6. Return to the WMI dialog window in Step 4. Type "net start winmgmt" (without quotation marks) and press the Enter key on your keyboard. Type "EXIT"
(without quotation marks) and press the "Enter" key on your keyboard. Close the dialog window. The WMI infrastructure has now been repaired on your
Windows XP installation.

Tips & Warnings

Your Windows XP WMI should rarely need repairing unless you run various system-intensive processes.

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davidmckinnon said
on 2/25/2010 Josh almost got it right - try this:
- stop the WMI service
- rename the current Repository folder to .old
- execute rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository
- Locate a working WMI Client the same as the non-working OS
- stop the WMI service on source client
- xcopy /c /s the WBEM contents from the working to the non-working
- start the WMI service and that should do it.

HTH,

David

voetball76 said
on 4/10/2009 This repair solved the problem of a corrupted WMI that prevented ActiveSync from recognizing my PocketPC. Many thanks.
MicroSoft support was of no use.

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