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Appendix F. WMI Error Messages

Table F-1 CONTAINS THE ranges of error messages that are returned by Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Table F-1. WMI Error Range

VALUE RANGE	DESCRIPTION
0x800410xx - 0x800440	Errors that originate from within WMI itself. There are two common scenarios. The first scenario is when the specific WMI operation fails because of an error in the request. Typical WMI request errors include insufficient permissions to make the query. The second scenario for WMI errors are related to WMI infrastructure problems, such as incorrect common information model (CIM) or Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) registration.
0x8007xxx	Errors originating in the core operating system. WMI might return this type of error because ...