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(I am running Vista Home Premium with UAC partially enabled by way of a
registry edit that disables the dialog boxes that pop up whenever you try to
install something, etc. while still allowing things such as file
virtualization)
When trying to view System Information, it displays the System Information
window (meaning the executable or whatever is probably still there), but the
following is displayed where the system information would normally be:
Can't Collect Information
Cannot access the Windows Management Instrumentation software. Windows
Management files may be moved or missing.
After some time spent surfing the web looking for solutions (during which I
checked if the WMI service(s) were enabled [which they were], as well as
stopping the service and services that depend on it, deleting the contents of
the Windows\System32\wbem\Repository folder, and restarting), I opened
wmimgmt.msc and right-clicked WMI Control (Local), and the following was
shown on the General tab in the box (textbox?):
Failed to initialize all required WMI classes.
Win32_Processor: Win32: Access is denied.
Win32_WMISetting: Successful
Security information: Successful
Win32_OperatingSystem: Win32: Access is denied.
I then "[Generated] a system health report" (Control Panel>System and
Maintenance>Performance Information and Tools>Advanced Tools>Generate a
system health report). The only test that failed (at least, that was reported
as failed) was the OS check. Here are the queries and results of the check
(slightly modified from the original only because of the lack of a table here
for the results).
Query: root\cimv2:SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem
Query Result: 0X80070005
Query: root\cimv2:SELECT *FROM Win32_OperatingSystem
Query Result: 0X80070005
registry edit that disables the dialog boxes that pop up whenever you try to
install something, etc. while still allowing things such as file
virtualization)
When trying to view System Information, it displays the System Information
window (meaning the executable or whatever is probably still there), but the
following is displayed where the system information would normally be:
Can't Collect Information
Cannot access the Windows Management Instrumentation software. Windows
Management files may be moved or missing.
After some time spent surfing the web looking for solutions (during which I
checked if the WMI service(s) were enabled [which they were], as well as
stopping the service and services that depend on it, deleting the contents of
the Windows\System32\wbem\Repository folder, and restarting), I opened
wmimgmt.msc and right-clicked WMI Control (Local), and the following was
shown on the General tab in the box (textbox?):
Failed to initialize all required WMI classes.
Win32_Processor: Win32: Access is denied.
Win32_WMISetting: Successful
Security information: Successful
Win32_OperatingSystem: Win32: Access is denied.
I then "[Generated] a system health report" (Control Panel>System and
Maintenance>Performance Information and Tools>Advanced Tools>Generate a
system health report). The only test that failed (at least, that was reported
as failed) was the OS check. Here are the queries and results of the check
(slightly modified from the original only because of the lack of a table here
for the results).
Query: root\cimv2:SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem
Query Result: 0X80070005
Query: root\cimv2:SELECT *FROM Win32_OperatingSystem
Query Result: 0X80070005