Winmgmt.exe

[Guest_imported]

Ok, what is the deal with Winmgmt? I did some homework, and discovered it is part of WBEM, for enterprise management. Unfortunately, it becomes activated not at start up, but after windows has been running awhile. If I am running a program for about 45mins, it kicks on, and brings my program to a SLUGGISH speed. How can I remove this feature, and is it safe to? It doesn't run in MSCONFIG, I looked. Unless of course it is running under a different name. I am a home user, and dont need this type of Web-Based Enterprise Management. Someone please help.

 

[DoofusMusic]

Did you ever find out how to turn Winmgmt.exe off? I have the same opinion of it that you do. Moreover, it interferes with burning to CD-R ... Is helpctr.ext part of this as well? I have found that my killing these two processes whenever I note them running that I have no problems burning to CD-R; if they're running, it's a coaster. Who needs it?

 

[Jakman]

Try renaming the file extension to winmgmt.exa or somtin like that. you can use file find.It cant load if it's not found.Using this method on this file should not cause any problem.If soo change it back in safe or dos mode.

 

[DoofusMusic]

Thanks. That's probably worth a try but I'm a little reluctant to do it without knowing what it is and what's it's supposed to be doing. I've gotten use to killing the process whenever I need to do something that I don't want interrupted (I'm assuming that the program polls the CPU in some way and that's why it disrupts my CD burn ..) and that has worked well. I'm wondering though what the purpose of the program is and why Microsoft designed it to be so stealthy ... Another program that loads similarly is helpctr ... I'm assuming the two programs are related but have never seen these mentioned in any kind of tech tip ... does anybody really know?

 

[chris57]

I haven't figured out how to keep it from coming up, but here's how I kill it.

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WBEM\WINMGMT /kill

 

[smitee]

crackon

Windows Instrumentation Management...............for what that is worth..

Google: winmgmt.exe site:microsoft.com

Smitee

 

[Guest_imported]

Read this link about why not to uninstall it:

http://www.swynk.com/friends/hobbs/cligenprob.asp#WBEM and Windows ME Warning

and then check out this Microsoft link to fix it:

http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...inmgmt&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WINME

 

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dr427

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=winmgmt&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wg

6,600 hits on winmgmt...!

Just one of these...

Re: Why is WINMGMT,exe ruining performance
generated (20) responses from pretty skookum tech's

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=winmgmt&hl=en&rnum=3&selm=3A5764C9.9560EE7B@NO_SPAM_gis.net

Seems unlikely there is a good answer in MKB article or why such interest..?
There seems to be more reasons not have it as there does to retain it.
I believe the issue is still in doubt. Personally, every time it shows up in Task Manager I give the Axe.

Smitee

 

[JCurry15]

I am actually getting an error with it. It says Winmgmt.exe has caused an error in <unknown>. The application will now be terminated. When I click OK, this message pops up about 2 or 3 more times, sometimes with winmgmt, sometimes with helpctr. I read somewhere a while back that these are part of win ME's error reporting back to microsoft. I still haven't found an answer to it yet, so hopefully someone will soon as this drives me CRAZY, especially when trying to watch a DVD.

 

[Guest_imported]

I have 7 volumes of hard disks. The contents of 5 of them appear stacked at intervals as short as every 20 minutes. Winmgmt always appears when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed. When showing, the screen saver is inhibited. This showed up when I did a clean C: dist install of the retail version of Windows ME.

 

[DoofusMusic]

This is still a mystery to me but I can assure you all that all you have to do it kill the process (I'm now using End-It-All) to do that each time you want to burn a CD and everything works fine. Leave it running and you're gonna get a coaster ... the same goes for running Diskfix (the System Suite version of Scandisk) or for defragging your disks. Gotta close it or it's trouble!

 

[Guest_imported]

Just go to control panel in Win2k,component services,local services,right mouse,properties,disable. unless you want to manage sevices on remote computers you dont need it.