Vista WMI Event 10

On a clean install of Windows Vista I was receiving the below error in the Application Event log.

Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.

I'm not quite sure why it was appearing but a quick scout around the web gave me the impression that it wasn't causing any real problems. The Windows Management Instrumentation seems to be some kind of system used by Microsoft to manage drivers and interact with Windows.

Removing the error was fairly straightforward and after doing so I found nothing noticeable wrong with the computer.

Here's what I did:

I opened up my Windows services and stopped the "Windows Management Instrumentation" Service. Doing this also stopped two dependent services, "Security Center", & "IP Helper".

Once these were stopped I then ran the Command Prompt (within Start Menu/Accessories) as an administrator (right click on the Command Prompt option).

Within that I typed the following to move the 'faulty' files to a new directory. (Don't type the bits in brackets!)

cd \     (to get to the root of the c drive)
md backupwbem     (to create a directory to move the files to)
cd windows\system32\wbem\repository     (to go to the path containing the files)
move * c:\backupwbem    (to move all files from this directory into the one created above)
exit     (to quit command prompt)

Once I had done this I then restarted the 3 services above ("Windows Management Instrumentation" , then "Security Center", and finally "IP Helper") and all was well.