Vista - System Files - SFC Command

Hi the .sfc file is created on the desktop but when I open it it is blank?

Over the past few days the blue screen has appeared for some reason.
My os is home premium 64bit.

Why would the file by blank?

Thanks
Bayrak

Hello Bayrak, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Did you run the sfc /scannow command first? If you did, then it may not have found anything wrong, or you may have made a mistake somewhere doing the command to generate the report file.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

Hi, Yes I ran scannow and it did say there was some errors but was unable to fix?

The blue screen has not appeared since running the scan earlier today? (hope it fixed what ever was wrong). But I wanted to see the txt file. As the txt file was created I'm sure I did that part as instructed.

Anyway I'll see how it goes over the next few days.

Thanks again


Bayrak

I hope it sorted it for you. If not, then just post back, and we'll see what we can do to help.

Hi Again, well several blue screens today so not sorted as I thought. Just for info I have uninstalled update KB973879 as recommended by MS.
Also in device manager it looked like there was a problem with a display adaptor which looks sorted now.

Error message after you apply update 973879: "Stop 0x0000007e" or "Stop 0x00000050"

The blue screen I was seeing gave me the error "Stop 0x0000007e"

Hope this is of use for others or perhaps you already know about it.

Anyway fingers crossed, no more blues.

Bayrak

Bayrak,

I'm happy to hear that it seems to be sorted now. Thank you for posting back the solution that you found.

Some quick feedback - discovered these forums recently (wish I had found them earlier!). A bit of detail to reassure anyone reading it does work and will not trash the disc

I had some real niggly issues, hard to put my finger on what, all sorts of symptoms, would work fine for days, then "poof" it starts, problems go away, then starts again yaddie yadda. There was no over arching symptom or something I could point a finger at - other than sending me to the mental asylem.

Whilst I sure as hell am no technician, I am an experienced user having been with windows since the very first Windows V1, and this was driving me nuts.

Anyway .... did a search on one of hassles - running 32 bit IE on Vista 64 (I need it for running videos, many formats still will not work inside Vista 64, and IE32 had mysteriously stopped working today), and came across these forums. Well, strike me vitals as they say ..... all sorted, the lot, not just IE32.

I had run sfc /scannow, and it must have wondered what the hell it was dealing with as it took 20 mins. Rebooted as instructed (and immediately before closing stage it applied the updates/fixes it had made), it was a clean restart. On reboot Norton complained and fell over, looks like one of their classic patches had been undone, however that was easy, did the Norton updates 2/3 times and after repeated "all done" messages, rebooted again. This time Norton was a happy bunny - real fickle Norton's, but I am hooked by it, I like it.

So far no problems since.

So endeth the waffle.

Thanks guys, did the trick for me, one happy user and new Forum member.

Regards
Zy

Hello Zydor, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. Thank you for posting back with your results.

Shawn

I ran SFC and it found a file it could not fix: c:\windows\system32\udhisapi.dll. I was able to restore the file, but SFC still fails on the same file. It finds a hash mismatch. The file date indicated it has has not changed since 11/2/2006.

From reading the posts, it seems I can try a system restore or a repair install. However, my install disks are SP1 and the system is at SP2. Does slipstreaming SP2 work for a repair install? Anything else to try?

Thanks...

Hello SolarMan, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might give a system restore a try first if the file was not corrupted to long ago.

A slipstreamed SP2 should be able to work to do a repair install with, but I have not tired it yet.