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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa826517(v=vs.85).aspx

Apparently you have a program that requests something that is provided by the WMI service.  click start and in the box type services.smc  Scroll down to the WMI service and change it from manual to auto.  To do this right click the service and select properties.  The message should go away as it will automatically start when required.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/open-windows-services

There's something cool here - you just can't see it.

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3 hours ago, Cracklingice said:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa826517(v=vs.85).aspx

Apparently you have a program that requests something that is provided by the WMI service.  click start and in the box type services.smc  Scroll down to the WMI service and change it from manual to auto.  To do this right click the service and select properties.  The message should go away as it will automatically start when required.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/open-windows-services

I found the list of automatic and manual services, thanks. But there wasn't a service called Samsung Magician or something similar

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3 hours ago, Cracklingice said:

WMI not samsung

"WMI Performance Enhancer" is the only one I can find, and it's set to automatic

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If you don't want the samsung magician software, you could hit start, type msconfig and find it in the 'startup' tab then uncheck the box next to it.

There's something cool here - you just can't see it.

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I'm running Win7 X64 SP1. Today, I upgraded to the latest version of Samsung Magician, which is currently 5.1.0. Can't say what version I had before, but it was obviously older.

 

The annoying popup started to appear right after that, mentioning some kind of problem with WMI service. I've checked it out (full name is Windows Management Instrumentation, or "winmgmt" in short), but everything over there was peachy (startup type automatic, service status started). There was nothing either in the Event Viewer. Long story short, that error message is totally bogus, and kept appearing every time I booted the PC.

 

What finally fixed it for me... doesn't make any sense at all. I went in the Samsung Magician application. There are several buttons at the bottom of the window for various sections. I went to every one of them, dismissed the "help layer" that appears the first time you get there. After that, I ran the "performance benchmark" and also the "performance optimization (standard)" and rebooted the system.

 

No more popups! Must have been some old parameter that the new app crapped on or something. BTW, don't call Samsung's tech support about this kind of stuff, the people I talked to today didn't seem to know what a computer is...

 

Have fun and... good luck!

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I tried all the above and I am still getting the wmi prompt. I am running win 7 and it started after updating the samsung magician app

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