Can someone remind me how to open the cbs.log created by an sfc /scannow. I thought to remember that it works with Notepad, but I got "Access denied".

Any help http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228/en-us

Click Start, type cmd in the Start Search box, right-click cmd in the Programs list, and then click Run as administrator.

If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.
Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >sfcdetails.txt

Thanks guys, I'll try your suggestions.

crikey whs, I just give it a click, and it opens in Notepad. No idea what you have going on there :)

OK. But I don't see how you get "Access Denied" in the first place ?

Try the command,
attrib C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log

What are it's attributions ?

If I remember rightly, I had the same problem as whs, I think I managed to open it in the end by "Taking Ownership". Although knowing me, that was a bad idea :-P .

Right, the A was there too and there was a gap. But no I. A C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log
PS: the posting deleted the gap. It was 12 spaces long.