Windows Vista Event Viewer Problems

Hi everyone,
I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit edition. My problem that I have been having is with event viewer. When I open it I get the familiar prompt from UAC telling me whether to continue or cancel. I hit continue and event viewer opens fine but it doesn't display any events or logs. I then get an error message that says MMC (Microsoft Management Console) has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it. Then my options are to report this error to microsoft and shutdown MMC or to unload the snap-in and continue running event viewer. If I report the error to microsoft it just closes event viewer. If I choose to unload the snap-in then the error message window closes and I get another error message that says:

Snap-in unavailable. This snap-in has performed a non-valid operation and has been unloaded. To continue worknig with this snap-in restart MMC or try loading this snap-in again.

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Exception message: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: '' Key being added: ''

Exception type: System.ArgumentException

Exception stack trace: at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add)
at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value)
at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.EventPublishers.GetPublishers()
at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.EventPublishers.GetPublisher(String publisherIdentifier)
at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.ViewerContext.GetPublisher(String publisherId)
at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.ChannelConfig.GetLocalizedNameFromChannel()
at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.ConfigFolder.Initialize()
at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.EventsNode.CreateChildNodes()
at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.EventsNode.InsertChildren()
at Microsoft.EventViewer.SnapIn.MMCEventsNode.ExpandNode()
at Microsoft.EventViewer.SnapIn.MMCRootNode.ExpandNode()
at Microsoft.EventViewer.SnapIn.MMCRootNode.OnExpand(AsyncStatus status)
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.NodeSyncManager.ProcessRequest(NodeRequestInfo info, IRequestStatus requestStatus)
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.NamespaceSnapInBase.ProcessRequest(Request request)
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.SnapIn.ProcessRequest(Request request)
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.SnapInClient.Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.IMessageClient.ProcessRequest(Request request)
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.IMessageClient.ProcessRequest(Request request)
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.RequestStatus.BeginRequest(IMessageClient messageClient, RequestInfo requestInfo)
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.SnapInRequestOperation.ProcessRequest()
at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.Operation.OnThreadTransfer(SimpleOperationCallback callback)

I have already ran sfc /scannow and I ran chkdsk which didn't make any difference. I booted from the windows CD and went to command prompt to see if I could run chkdsk /r but I got an error message that said windows can't check the disk because the drive is write protected. I am trying to avoid doing a repair install to fix this issue so is there anyway I can fix problem without doing a repair install? Any help would be appreciated.

 

As an update I tried Last Known Good Configuration and Safe Mode. I still got the same error message with event viewer while in safe mode. I am all out of ideas. Please help.

 

I googled my problem that I have been having and I got alot of hits. A lot of people are having this same problem but there are no solutions. On my computer I have opened all of the other administrative tools without any problems and they work fine. It seems that I am getting this error only in event viewer. So can somone please tell me how I can get event viewer to run again.

 

Anyone?

 

Thanks for you reply usasma. I just wanted to let you know that I got my issue resolved by doing a repair install with the Windows Vista DVD. I made another thread where this topic was continued because no one replied to this thread. http://windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=64013 That link is where this topic continued.