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sfc /scannow /rule (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hi u/tn0000,

Thank you for posting to the community.

According to your description, you are in a gaslighting competiton against a Microsoft Community Contributor. To ensure this is isolated to you and not other members of the community, please attempt the following steps:

Update your official Microsoft Igniter to ensure your quips are installed properly.
If the above did not resolve the issue, press Windows + R key to open the run command box, and type sfc / scannow to check for corrupted system files that may be the cause.
Finally, if the above two failed to yield any results reinstall the program. Because we know fuck-all and just like making up shit for you to do.

Best regards,
u/Sanctus

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the dirst paragraph really feels like it's writen by a llm.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear, those guys seem to think Windows is never at fault.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yup. It even extends to superuser.com.

I recently posted about an obvious bug in the Windows 10 DHCP client, showing with Wireshark captures that it is not resilient to hardware clock changes, i.e., you easily lose your IP address for hours.

Most of the responses either said, "you should not be dual booting Linux" or "there is no DHCP client that handles this case. You cannot expect Windows to handle it."

So I replied with a link to a similar bug report for RHEL, which has been fixed.

It's been a month since I posted this bug to the Windows Feedback Hub and there is no response. I doubt it will ever be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's astounding how intolerant these people are if anyone that customizes their PC whatsoever (like daul booting). Their response to anything like it is just "don't do that." Very helpful.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the 4 horseman of the apocalypse (when you know you need to reformat):

sfc /scannow
dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth
run the troubleshooting tool
install KB069420 from dead link

at least on linux we get to tailor our useless terminal commands to your specific problem before telling you to fuck off

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Before there was karma harvesting on Reddit, there was collecting Microsoft Desktop Certifications and copy pasting the goddamn same comment on every single Microsoft Community support post.

Can't turn off sticky keys? Run SFC & DISM /restore-health

AutoCAD won't activate? Run SFC & DISM /restore-health

Can't run SFC & DISM /restore-health? Run SFC & DISM /restore-health

For those of you curious, SFC, checks a list of essential system files with a list of known good copies.

DISM examines Windows image to check that all the files exist as they should and that Windows Updates have applied correctly.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Once, I found out that my place of work was paying some random guy hundreds of dollars to use his Outlook plugin because his forum posts gave them the impression he was a Microsoft employee. It was 3 years before IT caught it and made it stop.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Step 1: Google your problem
Step 2: Run the sfc bullshit that you know WON'T work
Step 3: ???

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"I'm having a problem."

"Nevermind solved it."

There is a special place in hell for these people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? Nevermind, figured it out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I refuse to be that person.

A while back, I was having issues with my headphone mic. It was getting killed by the manufacturer’s config program. The mic would work until the program launched, then it was dead until I rebooted. Even killing the program with Task Manager wasn’t enough; I had to fully reboot. It was clearly an issue with the program, but the only thing they’d say was “lul try reinstalling.” I found a single lonely forum post with the same issue, and it didn’t have a solution. The issue is that the program also configured some other peripherals, so simply removing it from my startup programs wasn’t an option.

After a lot of troubleshooting, I finally figured out that it was because the program needed admin rights. Why did it need admin rights to use my mic? Who fucking knows. But you can’t run programs as an admin automatically at startup, for security purposes. And even if you could, you’d get the UAC prompt every single time you booted up. It’s a massive pain in the ass.

So instead, I created a .bat file to automatically launch the program with admin rights and skip the UAC, but you can’t run .bat files via startup programs. So I used the scheduler to automatically run it at login instead.

And then I went back to that one lonely forum post, and described the solution in excruciating detail, along with step-by-step screenshots, (but the explanation was enough to do it without the screenshots, in case the screenshots get purged by the image host later!)

My only hope is that it’ll be a beacon in the dark for the next lost and lonely soul who has the issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well thank you for this. I'm sure someone will find your post useful even if it is just one person or a handful of people it is great that you did this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I hate them so much! EVERY time I have a rare problem and think I've finally found the help I need!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I once had someone on Microsoft Community tell me to run sfc /scannow and bootrec /fixmbr. The issue I had was Explorer.exe (like, the start menu and taskbar) was crashing every time I modified a file. The solution (as far as I ever figured out) was to reinstall Windows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, whenever something breaks in Windows and there isn't a quick fix I know or can find easily, I just reinstall. Ultimately you can probably find a fix. But the install process of Windows is pretty painless and fast nowadays. It's not that hard to get all the programs and settings back, with some exceptions of course. And you know, it'll probably, keep working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Couple days ago I came across a gem, I was searching why RDP client didn't start, and the official Microsoft support gave a line that looked suspicious, the following comment was something along the lines of "this made my pc unbootable, had to reinstall windows, this fixed it"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

ig "micro soft" refers to them

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