[RESOLVED] WMI? What good is it?

[captpackrat]

I have disabled the diskperf on my laptop, and have IIS installed but disabled. Everytime I would reboot, a bunch of error messages would show up in the Event Log.

I finally tracked it down to the Windows Management Instrumentation service. I disabled it, and nothing seems to have happened, other than my laptop boots like a bat out of hell now.

What good is the WMI service? Do I need it for anything? Is there some disadvantage to disabling it that I haven't seen yet?

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[StevePorter]

Ahoy, Cap'n: Here's a Microsoft White Paper that, that, ...

Sorry, fell asleep reading the paper. Anyway, maybe this answers your question:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...wmiandsnmp.asp

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[captpackrat]

Thanks!

So it looks like it's NOT really good for anything (at least for me) so off it goes!

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Captain Troy D. Pack Rat
`akbar Press

If you're furry and you know it, hug the mouse!

[storm]

for the home system it's pretty useless as you already figured out. where this does come into play is in a network environment. on the 2000 resource kit there's a tool called cconnect. with it you can drill into any compatible machine on the network down to the com object level and effect changes on that machine.

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[kannibul]

so - why do you have IIS installed on a laptop?
sound pretty dumb to me...

[wbatten]

you need a cut down version of IIs if you use FrontPage to upload your webpage!

-wayne


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