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Several Very Frustrating Vista Problems. Are there Any Tools still available ?
Boggin:
I forgot to add this - you can free up a few GB by turning Hibernate off.
Run a command prompt as an admin and enter powercfg -h off
To turn it back on, just repeat the cmd changing off to on
VacationDreamer:
Boggin
Searched and could not find pending.xml in Windows/WinSxS
Will take me longer to reply and try.
Because of my limited budget I am forced to eliminate Charter Cable. With tax has gone up to almost $60 a month for someone who is on limited social security.
I will try and keep updated by visiting the library more often. Glad this is not a desktop.
Thank you
UncleDoug
Boggin:
Sorry to hear about your new circumstances.
That's the only alternative that I know about to resolving the pending problem but see if a chkdsk c: /f run from the x command prompt in the Recovery Environment will unstick anything.
At the x prompt enter bcdedit |find "osdevice" then using whichever partition letter, enter chkdsk x: /f where x is the partition letter.
That is a Pipe symbol before find and is the upper case of \
Boggin:
I'd forgotten that I had the manual steps to that revertpendingactions cmd in my "toolbox".
Boot up into the advanced boot options and navigate to the Recovery Environment and select Command Prompt then enter these commands -
c:
fsutil resource setautoreset true %systemdrive%
Enter exit to close the cmd window then Restart and retry a sfc /scannow
If you still get the error, create a restore point as the next steps involve making changes to the registry, then go back into the Recovery Environment/Command Prompt and enter -
c:
cd C:\windows\winsxs
ren pending.xml pending.old
(While you couldn't find this file, let us know if this command completes okay or if you get any error messages).
regedit
Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - click on File - Load Hive
When that opens browse to C:\windows\system32
Locate the following folder - C:\windows\system32\config\components and click on to select.
When you are prompted for a name, type offline_components
You will now see the key offline_components - expand the + then locate and delete the following subkeys -
HKLM\Offline Components\AdvancedInstallerNeedResolving
HKLM\Offline Components\PendingXmlIdentifier
Go back to the key Offline_Components - highlight it then go to File menu and select Unload Hive
Close up the registry sections and reboot.
Run a cmd prompt as an admin and enter -
net stop wuauserv
cd %systemroot%
ren SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
net start wuauserv
That ren cmd will remove your Windows Update history but that will soon repopulate with subsequent updates.
As you will be probably be doing these steps from home, copy & paste this reply into a Notepad or Wordpad doc and then you'll be able to refer to them without having to go back on line at the library.
Rick:
--- Quote from: VacationDreamer on August 30, 2016, 12:54:19 am ---Rick
FixWin did solve one of the known problems but not the known major ones. The problem it did correct was the recycle bin refresh.
I was hoping that someone would have a tool or tweak that could repair SFC. It is one of the 2 primary tools that Microsoft tells you to use. Even Tweaking Windows Repair suggests you use both tools before running it. The same for FixWin.
Most tools I suggested for this and the other problems, are for Windows7 and newer. I looked for reg keys to delete and did not find them.
Turn Windows Features On or Off is blank (No Features listed)
System Restore will not run Catastrophic Failure ( 0x8000FFF )
With minimum support from Microsoft for Vista it is really hard to tell if it is working. Running one of the tools wipes out download history and I need to check Install history.
I see NO Options to choose from and each time I try and am literally downloading Blind not knowing what I might get. So far it only has been Windows defender updates. On one site a poster said he had an alternative to Windows update. Searched so many sites for each problem do not want to even try and search again.
Hoping a tweak might be in the future for SFC.
UncleDoug
--- End quote ---
Please download install and try 360totalsecurity; it has several features to resolve these issues.
I think this program also has a feature to clean up all pending installs too. at this point, deleting all the old stuff seems or appears to have no harm. additionally, you could consider another program I found that checks your system online, but their is a small fee associated with it. Boggin might remember the link from the other thread I started a while ago...
At some point, SFC will stop working correctly for all older versions of MSFT systems to push us too new systems we dont need;
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