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WMI on Vista or Windows 2008 is painfully slow. What can I do?

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Vista and Windows 2008 are very slow when it comes to monitoring WMI.

What can I do about it?

2k8 slow trouble vista windows-2008 wmi

Created on Mar 3, 2011 12:44:56 PM by Volker Uffelmann [Paessler Support]

Last change on Mar 3, 2011 12:49:47 PM by Volker Uffelmann [Paessler Support]



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Microsoft has published a couple of hotfixes adressing this problem. Read more about it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971265/en-us

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028484

We have at least one report that it successfully enhanced WMI monitoring.

Created on Mar 3, 2011 12:49:15 PM by Volker Uffelmann [Paessler Support]

Last change on Mar 15, 2011 11:11:31 AM by Volker Uffelmann [Paessler Support]




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