Re: Unable to connect to WMI service

From: Bob Norris (bnorris_at_ecology-eng.com.au)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:57:28 -0700

I tried running the command lines. All worked apart
from "regsvr32 %windir%\system32\hnetcfg.dll"

when I ran this the following mesage box
appeared: "LoadLibrary ("%eindir%\system32\hnetcfg.dll")
failed - The specified module could not be found.

The problem has not gone away.

any further ideas?

>-----Original Message-----
>Bob Norris wrote:
>
>> Networking problem
>> I cannot get ICS to work, it used to but not now!!!
when
>> I click on properties - advanced tab of my ISP i get
teh
>> message"Windows cannot display the properties ofthis
>> connection. The Window management Instrumentation
(WMI)
>> information might be corrupted. To correct this use
>> system restore to restore windows to an earlier time
>> (called restore point).
>>
>> The trouble is I have no point to restore to. It was
>> disabled and i had no idea this functin existed!!.
>>
>> when I run a network diagnostics scan every item shows
up
>> as an error and the detail reads: Unable to connect to
>> WMI service "\\.\root\cimv2"
>>
>> has anybody got a fix for this problem?
>Hi
>
>Try (using e.g. Start/Run, or a command prompt):
>
>regsvr32 %windir%\system32\atl.dll
>regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netshell.dll
>regsvr32 %windir%\system32\hnetcfg.dll
>regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netcfgx.dll
>regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netman.dll
>
>If that doesn't fix it, a lot of good information in
this one about
>repairing WMI:
>
>From: Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT]
(ivanbrug@online.microsoft.com)
>Subject: Re: Windows XP WMI Reinstall
>Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wmi
>Date: 2004-04-21 00:46:56 PST
>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=eg4cXS3JEHA.2380%
40TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
>
>
>WinXP Pro only:
>If nothing in the link above helped, you might want to
follow
>the procedure here and see if it helps:
>
>How To Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313222
>
>
>--
>torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn
Norway
>Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version
of
>the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.msp
x
>.
>

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