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?
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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.
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