Failed to intialize all required WMI classes - How to fix WMI Invalid Classes

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Failed to intialize all required WMI classes - How to fix WMI Invalid Classes

Haider Ali 20

I was trying to download SQL server from Microsoft's website a few days ago, I encountered an error and even posted it as a question with the log files. Someone helped me on that and found the issues stated in the log file, I copied and pasted those issues in the ChatGPT just to see what it would say. It advised me to check my WMI control properties. Now that I checked it, I can see where things are going wrong. Can anyone please help me in this? How do I fix this?

Michael Maher 47 Reputation points

2024-03-03T13:04:49.0666667+00:00

You can rebuild the repository it may be corrupt.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-team/wmi-rebuilding-the-wmi-repository/ba-p/373846
Haider Ali 20 Reputation points

2024-03-03T14:00:33.7766667+00:00

Hi, thank you for replying. There's one more issue and yes I tried doing what u said by following a video on YT. Could you please help me solve this issue? I tried to stop it before renaming the Repository folder and then restarting the service. But I get this error again and again.
Michael Maher 47 Reputation points

2024-03-05T13:59:58.6333333+00:00

Open a command prompt - 'As Administrator'

Then run

net stop Winmgmt