WMI corrupted and the suggested fix not working

[Mark Salacinski]

I am running Windows XP Pro. I have a LAN set up between
this machine, another desktop, and a laptop. Today, my
other machine was inable to access shared folders on this
machine nor could it access the internet. It doesn't have
the Internet Connection Firewall enabled, and neither did
this machine. I checked to see if it was enabled on this
machine, and instead of the checkbox to enable/disable
it, there was a message...
"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 restored my machine to a restore point made 2 days
earlier. It did not help.
I checked on Microsoft's website and it said to delete
the "C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository" folder, so I
did. It also said to set WMI to Automatic in Services,
which I also did. I restarted my computer, and nothing
changed. The "Repository" folder did not have anything,
although it was supposed to rebuild those files.
The article I referred to...
Keyword: kberrmsg kbprb KB319101

I do not seem to remember doing anything that could
possibly corrupt the WMI.
Thank you for reading this, and please respond.

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

What happens if you type this command at a command prompt

%windir%\system32\wbem\mofcomp %windir%\system32\wbem\hnetcfg.mof

If it succeds, does the advanced tab work again?

 

[Mark Salacinski]

Thanx for the help Ken, but before I even read this post
I used System Restore again to go back almost 1 week,
even though the network connection had worked the morning
of my original post, and then the advanced tab worked
again, but the network connection still had the same
problem.
Now that PC that was connected to my main machine (this
one) is now off to college with my Brother, so I cannot
test to see whether your suggestion helped it, but thanx
anyway. That machine doesn't return home until May, and
it may be thrown out around then anyway, considering it
is about 4 (some parts are 7) years old.
Now I'm not sure if this matters or not, but the link in
network properties, even when the advanced tab didnt
work, still said there was a connection.
And also, could me putting a new CD-RW drive into the old
machine yesterday have anything to do with this machine,
because that is around the time that the network stopped
working, but not immediately?
Thanx a lot, and here are the results from your
suggestion.

C:\WINDOWS>%windir%\system32\wbem\mofcomp %windir%
\system32\wbem\hnetcfg.mof
Microsoft (R) 32-bit MOF Compiler Version 5.1.2600.0
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp. 1997-2001. All rights
reserved.
Parsing MOF file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\hnetcfg.mof
MOF file has been successfully parsed
Storing data in the repository...
Done!

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

The network connection will still work even if the Advanced tab doesn't.
However the ICF and ICS won't work if the Advanced tab doesn't.

If you ran the mofcomp on a working machine, make sure it didn't turn off
your firewall if you had it on.