Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft’s infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows systems. Enabling WMI (or ensuring it’s running) is a common task for system administrators, monitoring tools (e.g., SolarWinds, PRTG, Zabbix), and developers. But for the average home user, it’s often an unnecessary security risk.
Or manually allow: TCP 135 + program %systemroot%\system32\svchost.exe wmi enable
Restart the computer to trigger Windows to automatically regenerate the repository. monitoring tools (e.g.