Author Topic: Is 'Repair WMI' suppose to take 9+ hours?? (Read 10470 times)

RedCyn1101 · « **on:** December 22, 2014, 05:47:59 am »

Running Windows 8 on Sony Viao. This is first use of tweaking.com on this computer. Issues are Windows 8 store apps not working, WD passport dashboard error message (but flashes so fast-hard to read.) Checked all boxes to run all repairs. Had trouble with the computer freezing on 5 - Repair WMI during Antivirus, Antispyware & Firewall. Didn't stop just "switched to" for progress. Now its been on Running Repair Under Current User Account step 3 of 3- Searching System for MDF & MFL files for 9+ hours. There is not that much on this computer. CPU usage is still moving - not frozen. Do I let it continue? For how long? Should I stop repairs? and then restart them with unchecking box 5?

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** December 23, 2014, 04:15:35 am »

Normally never takes that long. But it is windows and cmd.exe that is running the command, so if the cmd.exe is open and you can see the drive is being used by it then it is still working. But again, never seen it take that long before, normally 10 min or so depending on that amount of folders it has to look through.

Might be worth stopping the repair and have it try it again.

Shane

RedCyn1101 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 23, 2014, 10:45:08 am »

Did get frustrated, took a chance and stopped repairs. Rebooted, restarted repairs WITHOUT 5 checked. Worked MUCH better and fixed my windows issues. Only thing I had to figure out myself is to go back and enable all services I disabled for clean boot. Was able to get the windows apps, windows store, etc to work along with Sony's updates for the Viao. Computer sings now.

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2014, 10:06:43 am »

Good to hear you are up and going good

Shane