In tips 7078 and 7080, I proposed methods
of recovering from The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) information might be corrupted when you
view network properties in Windows XP.
A simpler alternative, suggested by a reader, is:
1. Open a CMD.exe prompt.
2. Type the following, pressing Enter after each line:
net stop winmgmt
del /q %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem\Repository\FS\INDEX.BTR
del /q %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem\Repository\FS\OBJECTS.DATA
3. Shutdown and restart Windows XP.
4. Reconfigure ICS and ICF settings because step 2 causes them to be reset to factory defaults.