Error message when looking for system information

when I click on system information I get the message Can't collect
information - Cannot access the Windows management instrumentation
softwafre. Windows management files may be moved or missing. The
computer still seems to be mostly working ok, but I occassionall get a
parsing error mesage, but when I click ok whichever program I am using
at the time continues as usual.

Thanks
Mike

MikeM wrote:
when I click on system information I get the message Can't collect
information - Cannot access the Windows management instrumentation
softwafre. Windows management files may be moved or missing. The
computer still seems to be mostly working ok, but I occassionall get a
parsing error mesage, but when I click ok whichever program I am using
at the time continues as usual.

Thanks
Mike

Here's a link to a message thread that talks about that very thing.
The problem occurs when you accidentally delete an important index.dat
file.

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...a0fbb521aeeb97