WMI for wireless

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Don Phillipson

I want to streamline an ancient Toshiba Satellite laptop, with WinXP (SP3)
and am having trouble turning on a (Belkin N1) wireless PCMCIA card. Error
messages
include that WMI prohibits this = Windows Management Instrumentation, which
is
itself incomplete or damaged. WMI seems to be an enhancement for Win98/NT,
see
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...46-E213-4CBF-9C5B-FBF236E0E875&displaylang=en

This includes a download I could try reinstalling. But I do not want WMI
for its own sake --
I want only to get the laptop to run fast and reliably, and with wireless
access (to a home
network, Trendnet wireless router on one floor and Belkin PCI card on
another.) Is
restoring the WMI really prerequisite to configuring the wireless card?
 
E

Etal

Don said:
I want to streamline an ancient Toshiba Satellite laptop, with
WinXP (SP3) and am having trouble turning on a (Belkin N1)
wireless PCMCIA card. Error messages include that WMI
prohibits this = Windows Management Instrumentation, which is
itself incomplete or damaged. WMI seems to be an enhancement
for Win98/NT, see
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...46-E213-4CBF-9C5B-FBF236E0E875&displaylang=en


This includes a download I could try reinstalling. But I do
not want WMI for its own sake -- I want only to get the laptop
to run fast and reliably, and with wireless access (to a home
network, Trendnet wireless router on one floor and Belkin PCI
card on another.) Is restoring the WMI really prerequisite
to configuring the wireless card?

In WinXP, WMI (WBEM in ms-lingo) is not an optional enhancement
like it is in Windows (Win98). It is builtin and the parts are
already present, and then the parts gets (security-)updated like
everything else.

If you say the WMI itself is incomplete or damaged, i suggest you
look at this URL:
<http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm>
I have used the tool Ramesh Srinivasan provides there once and i
think it cleared up some recurring WMI-related EventID entries in
my log i had at the time.


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