Windows error 0x80041003, -2147217405

Network Logon Issues with Group Policy and Network

I am gravely in need of your help and assistance. We have a problem with our logon and startup to our Windows 7 Enterprise system. We have more than 3000 Windows Desktops situated in roughly 20+ buildings around campus. Almost every computer on campus has the problem that I will [...] read more

Unlock Bitlocked data drive as standard user on the command line

I have a Windows 10 Pro PC, no domain, I don't use BitLocker on the system drive but have encrypted some fixed data drives using BitLocker and a password (no TPM). When I like to unlock these drives I can select them in File Explorer and choose Unlock Drive..., after [...] read more

Wired connection periodically disconnects requires ipconfig /release and /renew to reconnect

I just got back into University and after a day of using the internet I suddenly was unable to visit other webpages even though I was still able to chat. I restarted the computer and the internet could no longer visit webpages at all. I got a DNS error from [...] read more

What do these errors in Event Viewer mean?

I have been getting a lot of Event ID 10 errors when starting up my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit(SP1). Two errors (sources are WMI and Service Control Manager) are seen very often that on every start-up they occures(or at log on?): enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/E6E3m.png] ( The first [...] read more

Event filter with query could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003

In my SCVMM server, the following error is logged in events. > Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 > WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error > 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this [...] read more

"Access denied" for administrator for everything

We have a (rather old) Windows Server 2003 which since last week shows some odd behaviour. It decided that all local administrators and local system are no longer allowed to do anything, including creating event triggers or killing tasks (except via Task Manager). The problem goes away after a reboot. [...] read more

Enable/Disable of the network adapter through MSFT_NetAdapter

I'm trying disable/enable the network adapter through MSFT_NetAdapter in OS Windows 8. strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Delegate," _ & "authenticationLevel=pktPrivacy}\root\standardcimv2") Set colSettings = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from MSFT_NetAdapter") For Each objOperatingSystem in colSettings Wscript.Echo _ "DeviceID: " & objOperatingSystem.DeviceID & vbCrLf & _ "Name: " & objOperatingSystem.Name objOperatingSystem.Disable Next [...] read more

WMI Access Denied while Win32_Service query

I'm using WMI to retrieve REMOTE computer services. To check the results I try WMIC like: WMIC /NODE:"hostname" /USER:"login" /PASSWORD:"pwd" OS WMIC /NODE:"hostname" /USER:"login" /PASSWORD:"pwd" SERVICE etc. Everything's fine on Win server 2k3 machines. But on a new Win server 2k8 it works everything but not SERVICE alias - I [...] read more

Windows 7 explorer always crashes, opens small "Personalized Settings" window

My Windows 7 desktop PC, built by me, started acting very weird in the last couple of days. I use it quite often, about half of the time through TeamViewer. Explorer would crash and restart randomly, almost always through TeamViewer. This made me suspect that TeamViewer was the problem but [...] read more

Windows 7 (64 bit) SP1 stuck on welcome screen with wmi error

My desktop (Intel i5 @ 3.10 ghz, 8 gb ram, 1 gb nvidia graphics card, Dell s2240L full HD monitor) that runs Win 7 (64 bit) SP1 gets stuck on each startup on welcome screen after I enter the password. I need to hard reset the PC for 3-4 times [...] read more

Vista locks up after ~10h. of activity

I am experiencing a problem: Windows Vista completely freezes/locks up lately... It happened today twice - the mouse and keyboard stopped responding and I had to re-boot. I checked the Application Events Log and I see these two errors: Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE [...] read more

New-NlbCluster Access denied

This is a question and answer at the same time that I want to share to the community because google search "New-NlbCluster : Access denied" did not bring any results. Problem: Starting from 15 Apr 2017, the powershell commandlet New-NlbCluster started to give an error message: "New-NlbCluster : Access denied" [...] read more

Connect to WMI of remote machine when running as a service

I am writing some code to do wmi query and method execution on remote machine. My login credential is a domain admin. When I run in application mode, every works fine. When I run as service, it won't work which is expected since the default account service uses isLocal System. [...] read more

WMI call from C++ results in HRESULT=0x80041003

I'm not sure why am I getting this strange result. Can someone please shed some light on this? I'm using WMI calls from a C++ program to export the 'Application' part of the Windows Event Log. This is done from a local service and the code works fine under Windows [...] read more

How to solve Windows 7 regular hangs after fresh install. Some diagnosis done but can't pin down

I am getting regular hangs on my windows 7 machine imedietly after installation and after updating drivers. The machine is a Dell XPS 15 (L521x). It happens approximately once every few minutes. Sometimes I can move the mouse but can not click on anything and sometimes I can click on [...] read more

WMI "Access Denied" to Read Only Domain Controller

From a management machine using wbemtest, we are able to successfully connect to a remote Read-Only Domain Controller that is running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter with a user who is a member of the Domain Admins security group. However, when we try to connect using a non-admin user, we [...] read more

HP NC362i Integrated DP Gigabit Server Adapter #2 Network link is disconnected

I am using leaseweb dedicated server. Recently server became unavailable. I had to use forced restart via management panel of leaseweb. I am checking errors and i found these 2 errors below HP NC362i Integrated DP Gigabit Server Adapter #2 Network link is disconnected. another error Event filter with query [...] read more

Regarding permissions for Get-ScheduledTask via remote powershell

My problem is as follows: * I have two users on a windows server (Windows Server 2016). One is my regular user (with admin privileges) and the other a technical user. * I would like to probe for a given scheduled task on a remote machine (which is a Windows [...] read more

Some WMI calls to Unified Write Filter (UWF) return Access Denied errors

I am currently working on a C++ application which uses the integrated write filter(UWF) of Windows 10 IoT. I am using Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 1809 Build 17763.107 Now I face the following problem: Some WMI calls return with a "0x80041003 - Access denied" error and I can't figure [...] read more

.vbs script that echo's the Bitlocker status of the C Drive

I am trying to create a .vbs script that will echo the BitLocker status of a computers C drive. I tried using the following code but I got the error 0X80041003, Source: (null). strComputer = "." Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") strEnvSysDrive = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%SystemDrive%") Set objWMIServiceBit = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & [...] read more

Delphi: intercept SWbemServices.ExecQuery error

I'm implementing a WMI interface in Delphi VCL, I managed to have it working, but I'm now trying to make it a little more robust. The portion of code I'm working on is this: var FWbemServices: ISWbemServices; WMIObject: ISWbemObjectSet; WMISQLQuery: String; FCount: Integer; ... FWbemServices := FWbemLocator.ConnectServer('', 'root\CIMV2', '', '', [...] read more

Can't attach to SPUCWorkerProcess

The situation: Working on a virtual machine for SharePoint development. I'd like to debug the sandbox solution that I have received from our contractor. Usually I manually attach to the process by going to the debug menu > Attach to Process... > then selecting the process from the list. This [...] read more

Get-NetAdapter will not work

The first simple example using Get-NetAdapter in Get-Help from Microsoft will not work on my machine. Any suggestions? PS C:\Users\lit> Get-NetAdapter -Name * Get-NetAdapter : Invalid class At line:1 char:1 + Get-NetAdapter -Name * + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : MetadataError: (MSFT_NetAdapter:ROOT/StandardCimv2/MSFT_NetAdapter) [Get-NetAdapter], CimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80041010,Get-NetAdapter PS C:\Users\lit> [...] read more

GPU Issue can get into windows without drivers - BSOD

I was on my PC and suddenly my computer shutdown and booted into a bsod. I suspected it was the gpu because of the dollar signs at the beginning of the boot and so I proceeded to install the latest driver for my 560Ti, didn't work, tried an old driver [...] read more

Computer randomly shutting down

Well guys, whenever i play a game my computer will crash after a random amount of time, it doesnt appear to shut down if i leave it idle, it started off 2 months ago, and is starting to happen more frequently, my cpu usage is fine, my pc is not [...] read more

Event ID 10 - Windows Event Viewer

I receive the following error every bootup which does a few minutes crash. It then also can occur later on which does a complete crash and it will not unfreeze until I restart. > Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 > WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND [...] read more

Windows 7 SP1 login screen freeze

When login screen appears, both mouse and keyboard aren't working. I do shutdown via powerbutton, Windows 7 notices that and changes screen to 'Shutting down' spinner. Once rebooted, freezes once again. However, if I don't allow 'clean' shutdown, by keep pressing power, on next boot up all works -- I [...] read more

Windows 7 Pro blue screen Event Viewer Event ID 10

I have a user who's Windows 7 Pro machine repeatedly blue screens and the Event Viewer has numerous entries like below that seem to occur about the time of the BSOD occurrences. I would appreciate any help in understanding if this entry might be giving some useful information to troubleshoot [...] read more

DFS replication monitoring under a non-administrative account

I have a DFS replication set up on two Windows Server 2012 machines in a domain, the DFS consists of one namespace, two servers, several replication groups each containing one folder. I have been ordered to implement DFS-R monitoring via our local monitoring system. I want to collect backlog between [...] read more

exchange 2010 exchange management console, access denied. Time sync issue?

I installed Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008r2, my domain already has an Exchange 2007 organization present. DURING THE EXCHANGE 2010 INSTALLATION, TWO ERRORS OCCURRED: 1. Upon the hub transport role install, it failed with msexchangeadtopology service could not be started. This was fixed by adding the Exchange Domain Servers [...] read more

Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, WMI error event 10

THE SYSTEM IS WINDOWS 2008 R2, WITH EXCHANGE 2010 SP1 INSTALLED. I am receiving the following event log application error: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- event 10, WMI > Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent > > > WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND > TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be [...] read more

WMI Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration "EnableStatic" call fails with return result 0x80041003

I'm having trouble assigning a static IP address to a device that gets attached to my system and advertises a Network Adapter. Whenever I call EnableStatic on the device, with the IP and subnet mask, it returns the error code 0x80041003, which I believe means "Access Denied". I can change [...] read more

QT QFileDialog create unknown COM Object and security

I need help for this issue. i want to uses WMI in my project, so that i can use WQL to get some data fom Windows OS. Here is my code QList<Drive> SystemDrive::getSystemDrive() { QList<Drive> list; #ifdef _WIN64 HRESULT hRes; hRes = CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED ); if(hRes == RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE) { //qDebug() [...] read more

Security Error in WMI Connection

When trying to fetch running process details from a Windows 2008 server, I get the error code -2147217405 (0x80041003). I've read that it's a security issue. I'm connecting using a C++ MFC dialog-based application and have performed the following steps: 1. CoInitializeEx() 2. CoInitializeSecurity() 3. CoCreateInstance() 4. CoSetProxyBlanket() hres = [...] read more

Call method from out-of-process COM component using PHP on Azure

I've written a simple PHP script which instantiates a COM object for an out-of-process (i.e. exe file) COM component and uses it to call a COM method that the component exposes. This COM method very simply quadruples the number passed as the first argument, returning the result in the second [...] read more

SCVMM: A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server %servername%:a:DestinationUnreachable

Today we found our host status is "Needs Attention". We have upgraded the WMF 3.0. And to check the health status and it reports the following error: > A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server > iwwbgc8.dir.slb.com :a:DestinationUnreachable :The WS-Management service > cannot process the request. The [...] read more

as a Service connecting remote WMI query errors out with wrong user

Ok, first of all here is the error message from WMI-Activity / Operational in EventLog (Windows 8): Id = ; ClientMachine = machinename; User = machinename\Dev; ClientProcessId = 1440; Component = WMIService; Operation = connect to namespace : root\CIMV2\Security\MicrosoftVolumeEncryption; ResultCode = 0x80041003; PossibleCause = the user was not granted appropriate [...] read more

Using remote WMI to monitor win32_battery

My ultimate goal here is to remotely monitor the EstimatedChargeRemaining on a tablet PC. I have it mostly working, and it seems I can query almost anything BUT the battery! On the tablet I can invoke "wmic path win32_battery get estimatedchargeremaining" and get the % charge remaining. I can also [...] read more

How can I programmatically determine the description of an Event ID

I wrote a utility that allows me to view EventLog messages, filtering on their types, when they were written, etc. I see that I have had the following entry a gazillion times (give or take a few) in the last several months/since I purchased my laptop: Type: Error Source: WinMgmt [...] read more