System Information moved or missing

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I could not display System Info which used to work.



After 3 days of web searching and various "fixes" (commands, scripts,

reboots, Service Stop/Starts) which did not work), I got it to work this

way:



Note: I did not have any files in the "Repository".



"Comprehensive rebuild method"



Click Start, Run and type the following command, and press ENTER:



rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection WBEM 132

%windir%\inf\wbemoc.inf



If you have installed a Service Pack (like XP SP3), use

C:\Windows\ServicePacks\i386 to locate the files.

I only had to use Search for 1 other file which was found in

C:\Windows\System32\Wbem.



Insert your Windows XP CD into the drive when prompted. Repair process

should take few minutes to complete. Then restart Windows for the

changes to take effect. The Repository then showed files and

Repository.001 and Repository.002 backups were created which I later

deleted.





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TBat55
 
On Jun 29, 3:32?pm, undisclosed wrote:

> I could not display System Info which used to work.

>

> After 3 days of web searching and various "fixes" (commands, scripts,

> reboots, Service Stop/Starts) which did not work), I got it to work this

> way: ?

>

> Note: ?I did not have any files in the "Repository".

>

> "Comprehensive rebuild method"

>

> Click Start, Run and type the following command, and press ENTER:

>

> rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection WBEM 132

> %windir%\inf\wbemoc.inf

>

> If you have installed a Service Pack (like XP SP3), ?use

> C:\Windows\ServicePacks\i386 ?to locate the files.

> I only had to use Search for 1 other file which was found in

> C:\Windows\System32\Wbem.

>

> Insert your Windows XP CD into the drive when prompted. Repair process

> should take few minutes to complete. Then restart Windows for the

> changes to take effect. ? The Repository then showed files and

> Repository.001 and Repository.002 backups were created which I later

> deleted.

>

> --

> TBat55



What was the XP version ans Service Pack on the once afflicted system?



There are many ways to display SI - what method were you trying to get

to work?



When you chose to display your System Information, what happened?



An empty white display box

An hourglass

It looked like it might have tried do something and nothing happened

after that



How did you come up with the command you ran to fix it (was it a

Microsoft article?), etc.
 
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