winmgmt.exe errors

[Kanan]

My computer was having a problem getting restarted everytime. but i some how solved the problem which i found out was in the motherboard, But now i am getting the Error Message saying "WinMgmt.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program"

And an Error log gets created.

I think this might be a windows file. This Error message is giving me a pop up contiously in one minute or so...

Tried recovery CD to recover the safe file but didnt help it...

PLEASE HELP..!

[Glenny]

winmgmt.exe is the Windows Management Instrumentation. It is used by system administrators to create Windows management scripts, for example, scripts that handles the user accounts on a server. We strongly recommend that you run a FREE registry scan to identify winmgmt.exe related errors.

winmgmt.exe should not be disabled, required for essential applications to work properly. It is highly recommended that you run a FREE performance scan to automatically optimize memory, CPU and Internet settings.

Your PC's drivers may be out of date. This may cause hardware failures, conflicts and complete system crashes. We recommend you run a FREE driver scan to easily identify and list outdated drivers on your system.

[Raine]

If you disable the windows management instrumentation service it will be fine. Try clicking start >> run and type 'services.msc' and when it loads find the service Windows Management Instrumentation and stop it, turn its startup type to disabled or manual. Reboot and see if that helps you out.

[chroma]

The system.log is located in c:\windows\system32\config

That's where mine is.

It may be hidden, so do a search for it in Find Files. If it dosen't come up, in Find Files, go to Tools | Folder Options. View. Show hidden Files and folders. Enable that, apply and OK.

Lets see what you have in there.

[Kanan]

This is what I found in...

C:\WINNT\system32\wbem\logs\


wbem is where winmgmt.exe is kept so I thought this would be a good place to look.


Bailing out due to Initilaization failure(Wed March 16 15:46:31 2009) : core is being shut down by WinMgmt.exe, it returned 0x0(Wed March 16 15:46:35 2009) :
WINMGMT terminating an existing copy was detected

Wed March 16 16:11:16 2009) : Failure to initialize the repository (id = 0x80041014)
(Wed March 16 16:12:30 2009) : Creating a new repository based on a previously backed up version.

ConnectViaDCOM, CoCreateInstanceEx resulted in hr =
0x80004002(Wed March 16 17:15:52 2009) :
Error loading module {F7CE2E13-8C90-11D1-9E7B-00C04FC324A8}, return code is 0x80004002

(Wed March 16 17:17:07 2009) : CAdapRegPerf::EnumPerfDlls() failed: 80041001.

[chroma]

It says DCOM, but thats usually only used in Win95,98 and Me.

You could try running dcomcnfg from Run. Are there any clients that haven't been registered?

Have you installed any software or hardware recently?

[Sam.D]

I found a solution on the Microsoft Site, it might help you??