http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/03/09/unable-to-connect-to-wmi-locally-win32-the-system-cannot-find-the-path-specified.aspxGood morning AskPerf! Sanket Jagtap here from Platforms Team here to discuss an interesting issue I recently worked.&#160; My customer had a Windows 2008 R2 Server, and could not connect locally to WMI.&#160; When they ran “wmimgmt.msc” and tried to connecten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/03/09/unable-to-connect-to-wmi-locally-win32-the-system-cannot-find-the-path-specified.aspx#3515416Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:06:07 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3515416'Avi'<p>Thanks Blake.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3515416" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/03/09/unable-to-connect-to-wmi-locally-win32-the-system-cannot-find-the-path-specified.aspx#3485732Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:31:45 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3485732v_2prajh<p>Nice article!!! Did you also consider running a Procmon on a working and Non-working machine ?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3485732" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/03/09/unable-to-connect-to-wmi-locally-win32-the-system-cannot-find-the-path-specified.aspx#3485693Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:18:29 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3485693Will Steele<p>Good catch. I&#39;ll have to remember this one in the future. I&#39;ve run into too many failed WMI queries. &nbsp;Perhaps I will build this in as a preliminary check when I run Get-WmiObject as a sanity check.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3485693" width="1" height="1">