Why do I need WBEM?

Richard G. Harper wrote:
Apology accepted, and thank you for offering it.

But I still say leave well enough alone. VBG

In the end, that's what I've chosen to do.

I've run without WBEM before (in fact on the current install of my OS)
and depended on the excellent freeware program AIDA (now called
"Everest" -
http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1)to
provide me with system information. In those days, I never installed
system updates, but since then I reinstalled WBEM and have gotten my
computer up to date with all the system updates for ME that are
available. As a result, there is a slight chance that removing WBEM at
this point would cause unpredictable problems.

I guess after looking over my long posts I just wanted to know if WBEM
was used by Automatic Update, System File Protection or System Restore
because I rely on the latter two and perhaps the first one, even if I do
update manually. But if I'm not going to get the answer in this group,
then that's simply the way it is. That doesn't reflect in any negative
way on this group by any means since the answer is probably very
difficult to arrive at. Regardless, guess I'll keep looking elsewhere.

Thanks anyway.

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Regards from John Corliss