WMI Driver Extensions Service
SJ
missing. Initially, both the Windows Management Instrumentation and the WMI
Driver Extensions services were missing. I installed Windows Management
Inst. using the wbemnt5.inf file. That service is now up and running
however, the Driver extensions service is still missing. Is there a way to
re-install this service without reinstalling the entire OS? BITS depends on
this service and so I'm unable to do any Windows Updates...
Any information/help at all would be appreciated...
thks...
S.J.
Robert Aldwinckle
news:C801EFBA-723C-43EE...@microsoft.com...
> I'm running WIN2K and have run into a strange problem with this service
> missing. Initially, both the Windows Management Instrumentation and the WMI
> Driver Extensions services were missing. I installed Windows Management
> Inst. using the wbemnt5.inf file. That service is now up and running
> however, the Driver extensions service is still missing.
Try (in a cmd window)
sc qc wmi
sc queryex wmi
> Is there a way to re-install this service without reinstalling the entire OS?
> BITS depends on this service and so I'm unable to do any Windows Updates...
Really? Enter:
sc qc bits
sc queryex bits
What symptoms are you getting which are leading you to your conclusions?
Have you looked at the WindowsUpdate.log for detailed clues?
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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SJ
was not successful...Kept getting an error that 'sc' wasn't a valid
command...
Anyways, I ended up contacting Microsoft who confirmed that BITS did NOT
require the WMI & WMI Driver Extensions services so as a workaround, we
edited the registry to remove those dependencies. The question of the day
therefore is if BITS doesn't require the WMI services to run, why does it get
added as a dependency by default? Microsoft is currently researching the
issue...
thanks...
Robert Aldwinckle
> Thanks for the response...I'd tried previoulsy running those queries however,
> was not successful...Kept getting an error that 'sc' wasn't a valid
> command...
>
> Anyways, I ended up contacting Microsoft who confirmed that BITS did NOT
> require the WMI & WMI Driver Extensions services so as a workaround, we
> edited the registry to remove those dependencies. The question of the day
> therefore is if BITS doesn't require the WMI services to run, why does it get
> added as a dependency by default? Microsoft is currently researching the
> issue...
>
> thanks...
That is what the sc qc command was going to check. ;}
Hmm... sc.exe is in the W2K RK apparently:
<title>KB251192 - How to Create a Windows Service Using Sc.exe</title>
<quote>
To remotely create and start a service from the command line,
you can use the SC tool (Sc.exe) included in the Resource Kit.
</quote>
(MSKB Boolean search for
"sc.exe" AND kbwin2000search
)
According to Torgeir sc.exe can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/reskit/win2000/
Good luck
Robert
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