500 Posts and Giveaway!

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MS: The WMI Performance Adapter service fill up the System event

Issue:

You found the System Event Viewer full of events related with the WMI Performance Adapter service. The service start and stop every 5 minutes.

Events are:

Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7036
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Description: The WMI Performance Adapter service entered the stopped state.

and

Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7036
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Description: The WMI Performance Adapter service entered the running state.

Solution:

Set the WMI Performance Adapter service Startup Mode to Automatic