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From: undisclosed on 29 Jun 2010 15:32

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
From: Jose on 29 Jun 2010 17:53
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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