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My Hardware Inventory Says "Task Stopped" Why? 

Aug 04, 2008 05:06 PM

Recently, it was discovered that a client machine had a Task History entry for Hardware Inventory, AEXMACHINV.exe of 'Task Stopped'? In fact, AEXMACHINV.exe stays active and in place, showing up in the computers task manager until a time-out occurs. Of course, there was no hardware inventory on the server either. What happened?

Well, occasionally the computers operating system services can become corrupted. In this case, the installation of the WMI service on this computer was in a corrupted state. A removal and re-installation of WMI resolved the problem.

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Aug 04, 2008 09:39 PM

How do you reinstall WMI? I found the following information:
How to Reinstall WMI
If you get error messages indicating that the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service is corrupted, you may not be able to view network or connection properties, view system information or even connect to the Internet. You can force Windows to recreate the WMI repository by performing the following steps.
First, stop the WMI service. Here's how:
Click Start.
Right click My Computer and select Manage.
In the left pane, expand Services and Applications and click Services.
In the right pane, locate Windows Management Instrumentation, right click it, and select Stop.
Next, you need to delete the WMI repository folder:
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to your Windows installation folder. This is the location to which you installed the operating system files; by default it is named Windows, unless you upgraded to XP from Windows 2000, in which case it is named WINNT. This is called the %systemroot% folder.
Navigate to [drive letter]:\%systemroot%\System32\Wbem\Repository and delete all files in the folder.
Reboot the computer.
Windows will recreate the files that were deleted.
Alternatively you can try:
%SYSTEMDRIVE%
CD %windir%\system32\wbem
Mofcomp.exe cimwin32.mof
Regsvr32 /s wbemupgd.dll
Regsvr32 /s wbemsvc.dll
wmiprvse /regserver

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