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CPU Utilisation Goes to 100% During Inventory on NT 4 Workstations

I’ve got a problem whereby my CPU utilisation on my NT 4.0 Workstations goes to 100% when inventory is running.

Contributed By: Doug Robertson
I found the answer in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles:

279225: WMI Win32_QuickFixEngineering Queries Cause Winmgmt Process to Hang
324687: User Profile Does Not Unload After Running WMI Scripts

Upgrading 'CIMWIN32.DLL' using the hotfix in the second article fixed the problem with inventory pushing the CPU to 100% and consuming all virtual memory on my NT4 workstations.