Vista - System Files - SFC Command

I hope it goes smoothly for you. Please let us know how it went for you.

Hey Brink...

I made it back. And I'm not in tears! As I suspected, since I did not have a .bak SID entry, deleting the SID entry I did have actually deleted the user account; it did not recreate the account I was having problems with. Since you forewarned me in the tutorial that that might happen, I simply created a new user account. Creating the new user account was like starting with a fresh Vista without the hassle of having to reinstall all my applications. I did however have to setup Outlook and iTunes with all the proper settings. And all the websites I frequent that require user names and passwords, I had to re-enter all that info. I had all my backup information so it was just a little time consuming.

Thank you for assisting me on this journey! Any suggestions on maintaining a healthy Vista user profile so as to avoid these issues in the future?

Regards,
dtgVA

You're welcome dtgVA. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out now. My best advice is to avoid registry cleaning programs, and to always keep good backups to make restoring easy if needed.

The tutorial DOES NOT tell you how to run SFC...only how to read the logs and repair files that SFC could not repair...

Where is the instruction for running SFC? Am I missing something????

Hello Woodbear, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It sure does tell you how to in the steps under Here's How:. Just need to scroll down a bit further.

You would want to run the sfc /scannow command.

I don't think you read far enough on the tutorial page. Click on the link below and under the Here's How section you'll find the instructions you're looking for.

System Files - SFC Command

Hope this helps.

dtgVA

This is what I love about Vista...when I completed sfc /scannow it reported some corrupt files that it could not fix but when I went to examine the files in c:windows/logs/cbs/cbs.logs it told me 'Access is denied' ... unbelieveable...I cannot look at my own logs...like what was I going to do? steal them? Really stupid.

Woodbear,

If you are having some issue in Vista, then you may be able to do a System Restore using a restore point dated before you had it to fix it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

This is great, but once a file has been identified using SFC and showing in the sfcdetails.txt, how do you get it off the Vista DVD? I have taken ownership and have full rights over the file, but it is not located on the Vista DVD like the good ol' i386 in NT\2K\XP. Don't tell me that repair\reinstall is the only option. According to this MS article Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop responding, step 3 at the very bottom says to copy a file over. If Vista has really changed to where single system files cannot be brought over, like in XP, this will sour me on Microsoft forever.

I will use the example appwiz.cpl for programs and features, which is in c:\windows\system32 on the hard drive. A seach of the DVD does find appwiz.cpl.mui, but what can I do with this?

Hello Fishman, and welcome to Vista Forums.

This may be able to help you get the file from you Vista DVD.

Access Vista Install DVD Files

Hope this helps,
Shawn