i'm reinstalling on a virtual machine to figure out where wmi even came from.

when i initially built the scripts, i had wmi disabled - deleted, in fact. i vaguely recall bringing it back in when i rebuilt the machine, probably because i meant to get a scanner, which i did, which i need to run in a virtual machine, anyways.

at this point, i can't think of a single reason why it should be installed in the first place.