Have you recently run any "cleanup tools" or "optimisation tools", or defragged your hard drive, because there is damage to some of the keys in your Components hive, which we'll attempt to repair.
Do you have a recent backup you can restore to in the event that something goes wrong ? I'm not expecting it to, but always best to be prepared.
If you don't have one, then I suggest you create one. Macrium is a useful tool for this, and details for how to use it can be found here ....
Using Macrium Free to Backup or Image your drives
Once you have a backup, please do the following ...
WARNING! The following fix is specific to the user's system in this thread only. No one else should follow these instructions, as it could damage your system.
- Download the attachment SFCFix.zip and also save it on your desktop.
- Save any work you have open, and close all programs.
- Drag the SFCFix.zip file over the SFCFix.exe executable and release it.
- SFCFix will launch, let it complete.
- Once done, a file will appear on your desktop, called SFCFix.txt
- Open the file, then copy and paste its content in your next reply.
Next ...
- Click Search button and type Command Prompt
- From the results, right click on the Command Prompt icon, and select Run as administrator
- A Command Window will open.
- Copy paste the command below into it, then press Enter
- Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
- Once DISM has finished running ...
- Please attach your ... C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\cbs.log ... to your next reply.
- If the file is too large, upload it to a file sharing service, and post me the link.
- Examples of services to upload to are WeTransfer and TransferKit and SendFileOnline