Services Utility: Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions Service
| Display Name (?): | Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions | ||||||||||||||
| Short Name (?): | Wmi | ||||||||||||||
| Executable (?): | svchost.exe | ||||||||||||||
| Library (?): | advapi32.dll | ||||||||||||||
| Depends On (?): | None. | ||||||||||||||
| Supports (?): | None. | ||||||||||||||
| Description (?): | Provides systems management information to and from drivers. | ||||||||||||||
| OS (?): | XP Home/Professional, Vista Home/Business, NT4 Server, 2000 Server, Server 2003, Vista Server | ||||||||||||||
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Explanation (?): | The Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions service provides the driver enumeration abilities for Windows management instrumentation. This service is only activated by the WMI service when it needs to add, remove or query entries on drivers. Therefore it is best that you leave this service to manual. You do not need to set this to automatic and it could cause unexpected errors if you disable it. |