http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/27/wmi-performance.aspxAndy Cheung wrote a very good blog on WMI performance HERE .&#160; Check it out. &#160; Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&#160;&#160;&#160; http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windowsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/27/wmi-performance.aspx#9806607Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:03:06 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9806607Darren<p>Cool! &nbsp;Is there a way to do his example 3, Reusing WMI Connection, in powershell? &nbsp;I do a lot of WMI querying for system and service monitoring. &nbsp;Extra performance would be great.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/27/wmi-performance.aspx#9806657Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:13:39 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9806657PowerShellTeam<p>The only way you can do that now is by using the .NET api access. &nbsp;You can be sure that it is on the to-do list for the next release.</p> <p>jps</p>