On the programmer's D drive (not yours) the source code for the module reporting the error is that file. WMI will start if something is using it. If nothing is using it then it can be killed. If you kill it and something is using it it will just restart.

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"Tom Quan" <tquan@telleride.com> wrote in message news:xie5bbvop7tf.8i3q7v9n2tl5$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:50:28 -0700, Wesley Vogel wrote:
>> I did not post anything about the Windows Management Instrumentation
>> service. Leave it set to Automatic in services.msc.
>> I suggested disabling WMI logging.
>
> Oh. OK. I am less confused now. Thank you for your patience. I've never
> encountered this thing called windows management instrumentation before so
> I'm starting with a knowledge base of zero (other than what I glean from
> google and learn from you from your kind efforts).
>
> I right clicked on the WinXP SP2 "My Computer", pressed "Manage", "Services
> and Applications", and right clicked on "WMI Control", "Properties" which
> then said "Connecting to Windows Management" and brought up a 5-tab "WMI
> Control Properties" form.
>
> Pressing on the "Logging" tab for the first time, I see it was actually set
> to "Errors only". As a test, I set it next to "Verbose" and noticed LOTS of
> new logs showed up in C:\windows\system32\wbem\Logs, e.g., Framework.log,
> provss.log, wbemcore.log, WinMgmt.log, wbemprox.log, etc.
>
> Looking in the various logs, I find strange reports such as:
> CWbemProviderGlue::Init 12/18/2005 11:14:14.228 thread:3982
> [d:\xpsprtm\admin\wmi\wbem\sdk\framedyn\wbemglue.cp p.199]
> Failed to open thread token: (1008) 12/18/2005 11:14:14.228 thread:3984
> But my D: drive is almost wholly empty (except for something hidden called
> "System Volume Information" and "MSOCache".
>
> Do these tell us anything?
>