I noticed a little "problem" with this process, after upgrading my Sygate Firewall Pro from 5.5 to 5.6. It always used to stop little while after Windows was booted up, but now it doesn't. It stays running (or atleast stays running much much longer). 'Windows Management Instrumentation' service is set to "Automatic", like it was after firewall upgrade. When i restart that service, wmiprvse.exe process disappears, but it doens't fix the problem permanently. Any idea why this wmiprvse.exe is acting this way now? And any possible solutions?

Any idea why this wmiprvse.exe is acting this way now? Something is using WMI. And any possible solutions? Ignore it.

It's just not right. It stays there forever.

As it should. After all, you don't go killing svchost.exe, and multiple instances run from system boot to system shutdown. If you REALLY want it to not show up, run this command: sc config winmgmt start= disabled Warning: This will probably break some program. Specifically, whatever's using WMI.

A Google search turned up this web page: http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/p... A short way down the page you will see this: "The wmiprvse.exe file is located in the folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem. In other cases, wmiprvse.exe is a virus, spyware, trojan or worm!" You might want to check and see where the file is located. I found it in that location and c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386.

It's in C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem folder.