nmefwmi.exe stopped working and was closed

I installed Oracle 11g last week on my laptop (Windows Vista Business Edition) and had no issues except a reduction in my machine's performance.

However yeseterday windows update wanted to install some updates and one of which was Service Pack 2 which I let it install. Ever since then every 5 minutes I get this error message in a popup:

nmefwmi.exe stopped working and was closed

After doing some searching this is apparently a bug in Oracle 11g that is yet to be resolved by Oracle. I found hearing that strange since the problem only started occuring for me after a windows update.

I found this answer which explains how to fix the issue:

* nmefwimi.exe is Oracle Enterprise Manager process and it is not critical in the sense what when it stops working it will not affect the database.
* nmefwmi.exe process is associated with OracleDBConsoleorcl service.
* Go to Administrative Tools -> Services, stop the service and set the startup type to "Manual".
* When you need to use dbconsole, start the service manually, ignore the error, do what you have to do, and stop it again.