Can't get GMER to Work - Why!?!?

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

FYI ... my laptop is Gateway M-6862 with Vista Home Premuim, SP1, 64-Bit. And I have all the Updates installed as per Microsoft suggestion.

I have downloaded the latest "GMER RootKit Remover 1.0.15.15077" and tried running it and I get the following error ...

"C:\Windows\system32\config\system: The system cannot find the file specified."

But it won't tell me what file is trying to locate!!!

Please see the attached jpg ... as you can see I can ONLY see "Services"
"Registry" and "Files" on the Right-hand side of GMER program Highlighted ... the Rest of the Options are GREYed out ... so they are not Available!!!

So, I think GMER it does not initialize correctly and it will not allow the "Normal" options to be available.

Q1: Can anyone please tell me how to get GMER work properly?

Q2: For CHEWY ... how to use CatchMe 0.3 correctly?
See attached JPG and here is the "LOG" that resulted from the run ...

(catchme 0.3.1398 W2K/XP/Vista - rootkit/stealth malware detector by Gmer
Rootkit scan 2009-09-08 09:56:17
Windows 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 WOW64 NTFS
scanning hidden files ...
IPC error: 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
scan completed successfully
hidden files: 0 )

Thanks,

G!

[doctorhardware]

Yes it will not run on my HP laptop either. Has Vista 64 bit, but I am not that worried either because the original drive is not in the laptop. I have installed 2 500 gig drives and cloned the 320 gig that was in the laptop and took it out.