How to resolve WMI related Generic Error problem

Especially for Windows XP machines after Service Pack 2 (SP2) is installed some WMI related problems can occur due to security updates included in sp2. These problems cause PragmaSQL not to perform license check correctly and as a result application does can not start. Some probable solutions to this WMI related problem are

Probable Solution - 1: Please ensure that Windows Menagement Instrumentation service is not disabled

Probable Solution - 2:  Try running this command and see if it works
netsh firewall set service type=remoteadmin mode=enable scope=all profile=all

Probable Solution - 3:   Follow these steps

1. Use the Start menu to right-click My Computer.
2. Press the Manage item.
3. Double-click Services and Applications in the left-hand pane.
4. Press Services to expand it.
5. Scroll to Windows Management Instrumentation in the right-hand pane and right-click it.
6. Press Stop.
7. Use Windows Explorer to delete all the files in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem\Repository folder.
8. Shutdown and restart your computer. The Windows Management Instrumentation service will start and the files will be re-created.

Probable Solution - 4: Go to Start/Run/CMD and then run each of these hitting enter after each:

1. winmgmt /clearadap
2. winmgmt /kill
3. winmgmt /unregserver
4. winmgmt /regserver
5. winmgmt /resyncperf

Probable Solution - 5:   To correct permission issues:

1. In the Management Console\Services STOP WMI and set to manual.
2. Go to the WMI repository %Windows%system32%wbem and delete the repository.
3. Set the WMI service back to Automatic
4. From %Windows%system32%wbem run "wbemtest" and connect to your namespace.
5. Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to: Locate current HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class. Open the class key and right click on the sub key 0000 and select permissions and make sure that the permissions for you [administrator] are "Full".