• dinckel@lemmy.world
    100·
    5 months ago

    The Microsoft support forums are on a whole level of their own, when it comes to being useless.

    sfc /scannow and the troubleshooting button in the settings do fuck all, and compared to the usual systemd journal, the event log rarely gives you any useful information whatsoever

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      43·
      5 months ago

      sfc /scannow does fix certain problems, just not nearly as many as the Microsoft support forum would like.

      I do agree with you on the log, although that’s often because whichever component is misbehaving just doesn’t believe in error logs. I’m looking at you, Nvidia.

      • dinckel@lemmy.world
        18·
        5 months ago

        Are you trying to say that error 43 isn’t the only thing you’d ever need to know about it?

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      29·
      5 months ago

      sfc /scannow and the troubleshooting button in the settings do fuck all

      Hey, that’s not true! sfc takes forever to run, so it’s a good way to waste time and get even more frustrated.

    • Sabata@ani.social
      20·
      5 months ago

      DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and pray it fixes everything before you reinstall.

    • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      5 months ago

      It’s at the level where, after spending hours there, I feel like it has to be a conspiracy to waste your time. Because there is no way there could organically be that many posts about a topic without there being any useful or correct information.

    • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Actually I had an issue where trying to sign into my samba share caused explorer.exe to crash constantly, running sfc /scannow fixed it surprisingly. Glad that’s on my “these programs only work on Windows” system.