Re: What is in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wbem folder?

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Lars-Erik Østerud wrote:
Subject says it all, what is this stuff. Is it in use, or leftover
from something I once had installed (files not used for a while)?

These are the files used for Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI, which is Microsoft's implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM). Those files are part of Windows and are used to query the state of the machine and other information. You should leave them where they are so that any program you have that uses WMI to query for information will continue to work properly.
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Tom Porterfield

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