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WINMGMT
What is winmgmt.exe?
My windows ME works fine but after about 1.5 hours of surfing a prog. WINMGMT starts up and gobbles memory and resources. the the blue screen happens and I have to powerdown. But if I catch it in time and elimate it in time (ctrl+alt+del) then a can run all day. What makes winmgmt.exe start up? I have tried delteing it re-naming it but it rebuilds it self in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WBEM help JOHN |
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WINMGMT
John,
Winmgmt.exe can be called by a number of application including the PCHealth Scheduler for Data Collection. I do not advise trying to delete winmgmt.exe not that that is easy as you have found since it is protected against deletion or amendment by Win Me's system file protection. What follows may or may not be of interest. PCHealth Scheduler for Data Collection: The PCHealth entry in MSConfig | Startup and also in the Task Scheduler, refers to the PCHealth Scheduler for Data Collection routine (pchschd.exe) which launches winmgmt.exe to collect software and hardware configuration data that can be accessed using Help & Support's System Information's History view. In other words it allows you to see changes over a period of time to your system such as drivers. The details collected are contained in the files CollectedData???.xml files in the folder ..\windows\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl. Note that all that pchschd.exe is doing every ten minutes is checking if the system is idle or not. If idle it launches winmgmt.exe to collect the information and sets itself to run again in 6 hours, if not it continues to run at ten minute intervals until it finds the system is idle. As to whether you need this historic data or not, only you can decide. A number of us have long since decided to disable pchschd.exe having no use for the collected data. It should be noted that if you contact MS or an OEM for help that it is possible that they might request you send them these files. If you do choose to disable pchschd.exe it is ESSENTIAL to delete/disable it from both MSConfig | Startup and the Task Scheduler as otherwise the startup entry will recreate the Task Scheduler entry when the system is rebooted. One advantage of disabling the PCHealth Scheduler is that it minimizes the chances of winmgmt.exe causing problems. What happens is that quite often winmgmt.exe doesn't exit correctly when it has finished but instead remains resident and using cpu cycles. Note also that disabling these entries does NOT affect either System Restore or System File Protect, nor AutoUpdate or your ability to use Help & Support, all part of what Microsoft call "PCHealth". -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP John wrote: What is winmgmt.exe? My windows ME works fine but after about 1.5 hours of surfing a prog. WINMGMT starts up and gobbles memory and resources. the the blue screen happens and I have to powerdown. But if I catch it in time and elimate it in time (ctrl+alt+del) then a can run all day. What makes winmgmt.exe start up? I have tried delteing it re-naming it but it rebuilds it self in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WBEM |
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