Windows 10: Thousands of WMI/WMS errors in my Event Viewer

Hello,


I've been getting a bunch load of these Service Control Management and NSSM errors in my event viewer. They all either say:


"The WMIs service terminated with the following service-specific error:

The system cannot find the path specified."


"The WMIs service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 times. The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service."


"Failed to start service WMS. Program C:\Windows\wmu3\wlanext.exe couldn't be launched. CreateProcess failed: The system cannot find the file specified."


I've attached a photo below for reference. I would gladly appreciate someone's help!




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WMI error...

I just installed Vista 64 and I've been having problems (go figure). So at the moment I'm running everything stock and stable. I was searching through the event viewer and found one reoccuring error, a WMI error. Here is the SS:





Any info on how I can correct this or if anyone else has run into this problem, please help me if you can. Thanks!

 

Failed to start service WMS - Error Id 1010


Okay, so the HowToGeek method didn't fully solve my issue, but did give some insight. I uninstalled MalwareBytes, but now a new process is identified by Event Viewer in the errors for Windows Management Instrumentation: svchost.exe. I'd assume that this is the Service Host for WMI. Unsure what could be done to fix that error.

But here's the thing I'm confused about. In Services, I can three relevant separate services: Windows Management Instrumentation, WMI and WMI Performance Adapter. Windows Management Instrumentation starts and stops without problem. However, it is the Service called WMI that cannot be started, giving the aforementioned "WmiPrvSE.exe cannot be found". Yet, when I click on properties for this WMI service, it says that the display name is WMI, yet its service name is WMS.

So here's where I'm stuck, is this WMI (or WMS) different from Windows Management Instrumentation? This WMI (I'll call it WMS from now on to avoid confusion) has a path to C:\Windows\wmi\netmon.exe. Yet, this folder doesn't exist on any PC but my own. Do you guys see the WMS service (with a display name of WMI), or is me seeing that service maybe indicative of the larger problem?




Screenshot of the WMS process with its path to executable. This is the Service that gives the error "WmiPrvSE.exe not found" when I attempt to start it (which always fails)


UPDATE: Source of the error for WMS (WMI display name) comes from "nssm", shown below:



Doing some research, that's something called the "Non-Sucking Service Manager". Now, I'm not sure if that comes with Windows 10, but I don't remember installing it. Is this program the cause of the issues, or may it just be the program reporting the error?

 

Failed to start service WMS - Error Id 1010


I can't be absolutely certain but it would appear that the first instance I can find of the 1010 error appearing was on 22/01/18 after several hours use. I'm trying to think back if that was the date/time I first noticed the high CPU use and stopped the service ?

The problem is my event log only starts 22/01/18 but has 5,575 events logged.

From Event Viewer 'Admin' log
15:19 event ID 7024 - "The WMS service terminated with the following service-specific error: The system cannot find the path specified."
15:21 - "The WMI service terminated with the following service-specific error: The system cannot find the path specified."

From Event Viewer 'Windows System log'
15:24 event 1010 - "Failed to start service WMS. Program C:\Windows\wmi\WmiPrvSE.exe couldn't be launched. CreateProcess() failed: The system cannot find the file specified."