{"id":643651,"date":"2013-02-23T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=132140"},"modified":"2013-02-23T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:10:45","slug":"when-all-other-windows-troubleshooting-fails-try-wmi-diagnostic-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643651","title":{"rendered":"When all other Windows troubleshooting fails, try WMI Diagnostic Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an important Windows framework that is used by many system components, as well as plenty of third-party applications, so if it\u2019s ever damaged then you could experience all kinds of odd system problems. There\u2019s no single place that you can check to see whether WMI is working, either, as it\u2019s just too complex, and so Microsoft has developed a script called the\u00a0WMI Diagnostic Utility<\/a>\u00a0to provide some in-depth troubleshooting information.<\/p>\n

The tool is aimed at system administrators and other IT professionals, so if you\u2019re a Windows novice then it\u2019s probably best to stay away. If you\u2019ve even just a moderate level of PC experience, though — you\u2019ve no problems running the occasional tool at the command line, say \u2013 then it could be worth a look.<\/p>\n

To run it, extract the contents of the download to somewhere safe, launch an elevated command prompt (right click cmd.exe, select \u201cRun as administrator\u201d), change to your new folder, and enter\u00a0cscript wmidiag.vbs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And then wait. WMI really is massive, so the script has a lot to do, and it\u2019ll take some time to gather the necessary information (four to five minutes on our test PC). The command window will update occasionally with details of the current test, though. And when it\u2019s done, Notepad (or whatever else is your default for plain text files) will open to display the finished report.<\/p>\n

As you\u2019re scanning the details, you\u2019ll find a lot of very low-level, technical information which isn\u2019t going to mean very much at all. We were told that our test PC had 1848 \u201cWMI static instances\u201d, but no \u201cWMI dynamic instances\u201d, for example. Is this normal, good, bad\u2026? We don\u2019t have the faintest idea.<\/p>\n

Amongst all this, though, are plenty of nuggets which you may find useful. So we were told that our system had no WMI system or repository files missing, for instance: just knowing that may be helpful if you\u2019re trying to diagnose some odd Windows problem.<\/p>\n

The script also complained that a Registry setting wasn\u2019t what it expected, telling us the precise key and what it\u2019s value should be. Might that also be useful? We don\u2019t know, but again it gives you a starting point. If something similar happened on your system, you could at least enter the key name at Google, see what it\u2019s for, whether the setting might relate to any issues you\u2019re having.<\/p>\n

And the script, as well as the documentation which comes with it, also explains how you can fix some problems by running command line tools such as WMIDIAG.<\/p>\n

This still isn\u2019t a tool you\u2019ll need to run very often. If your PC is taking an age to boot, say, you\u2019ll be better off following the usual troubleshooting tips first (check your startup programs, your Windows services, clean and defrag your hard drive, and so on).<\/p>\n

But, if you\u2019re suffering from major Windows problems, all the regular solutions have failed and you can\u2019t find an answer (or, maybe, you\u2019ve just heard somewhere that your type of problem might be WMI-related), then it may help to run the\u00a0WMI Diagnosis Utility<\/a>\u00a0as a last resort. The tool checks a lot of Windows components, and there\u2019s just a chance that it could uncover something useful.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong> Vladru<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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