gaurhoth

That seems to have allowed it to install. I'm assuming that bypassed 'something' that was triggering a WMI call? Will tinker and let you know if anything seems 'amiss' - but for now. Thanks!

Yes, the WMI service is running and working on the PC. I can make any get-wmiobject call to my local PC that I can think of using powershell. Not sure what Class the install script is trying to access - so I can't really diagnose further.

Unfortunately, I've been unable to install Powergadgets on several laptops that I've tried. These are new OS builds with no previous versions of Powershell or Powergadgets. When I try to install Powergadgets, I get a the Please Wait - Initializing Script Files for a few seconds and then I get: "PowerGadgets Creator Installation has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Using the debug option, I get the following additional information: " An unhandled exception of type 'System.Management.ManagementException' occurred in System.Management.dll. Additional information: Provider load failure " As mentioned, this has been tried on several different laptops (altho all the same model Dell D620's) with Windows XP SP2 and all of the latest available patches. I welcome any ideas.

Okay, that seems to work okay. Kind of cumbersome, but oh well, gotta go with what works Thanks! gaurhoth

Not sure how to stop [ 6 ] from being converted to a "devil smiley"... so replace any devils with [ 6 ] (remove spaces). (Okay figured it out... added spaces in code example... but now I can't delete this message... what fun!) Thanks.

I have a powershell script that uses an external command line application to retreive data. However, when I pipe this to Out-Gauge with -refresh parameter, I get a CMD window that opens and closes each time the gadget refreshes. The powershell host hides any external cmd window... is there a configuration I'm missing for PowerGadgets to hide any external cmd windows? Here is a VERY simple example that shows the behavior: Contents of PING.PS1:$output = ping www.google.com -n 1$output[ 6 ].split(" =")[ 6 ].replace("ms","")PS C:\ps\bin> .\ping.ps1 | % { out-gauge -value $_ -floating -refresh 0:0:5 }PS C:\ps\bin>