Connection properties

[Shane Nation]

I have had a perfectly good network set up between two PCs at home, all of a
sudden I got told there was a restricted connection on the home network.

I ran the "home network wizard and it keeps telling me it was unable to
complete the wizard.

Looking at the properties tab on any of my network connections it has a
message saying
"Windows cannot display the properties of this connection. The Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) information might be corrupted. To correct
this, use system Restore to restore windows to an earlier time."

I have tried restore to an earlier time and it made not difference.

Please can anyone give me any clues, or do I blow away the PC and start
again?

Thanks

 

[OShah]

I have had a perfectly good network set up between two PCs at home, all
of a sudden I got told there was a restricted connection on the home
network.

I ran the "home network wizard and it keeps telling me it was unable to
complete the wizard.

Looking at the properties tab on any of my network connections it has a
message saying
"Windows cannot display the properties of this connection. The Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) information might be corrupted. To
correct this, use system Restore to restore windows to an earlier time."

I have tried restore to an earlier time and it made not difference.

Please can anyone give me any clues, or do I blow away the PC and start
again?

Thanks

Can you run these two commands at a command prompt?

WMIC.Exe OS
set path

For WMIC, you should see a bunch of text starting with:
"BootDevice BuildNumber"...

and for set path, you should have something like:
C:\Windows\System32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem

[assuming windows is installed in C:\Windows].

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oshah [shexec32]
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose Programs
-> Do not report errors for these programs:

Acrobat.exe
waol.exe

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