W7 will not allow me to run SFC even though I am the Administrator?

Tried many times.

Same result.

Seems like a simple problem but I'm stuck.

Can you help me?

After you select the Command Prompt window to run as Administrator and then you type in
sfc /scannow
and then you press the Enter key, what happens?

The correct command is
sfc /scannow

You have a single space on BOTH sides of the slash.

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I have never encountered that issue, so someone else here will need to help you.
Good luck.

Mike Lynch said:

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The answer is very simple. Just because you are signed in as an administrator doesn't mean everything you run is running as an administrator. Your Command Prompt isn't, for a start. you need to specifically choose to run Command as an administrator. You will know you have because it will say Administrator in the title bar.

See this tutorial: Elevated Command Prompt

Only in an admin command prompt can you run sfc /scannow. Here the top one is a standard command prompt, the bottom one has been run as an administrator, it's the only one that SFC can run in.

Mike