Re: Sfc /scannow

What you said here makes a lot sense.
How about check with repair?
What does that fix?

Roman



"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's the kind of thing where you go through troubleshooting steps and as
you progress along if nothing seems to fix the problem you then move up
the scale of possible fixes. If you are at the point in the
troubleshooting and repair efforts where you think that you need to send
the machine to a repair shop then you could certainly try running SFC, it
won't hurt anything to try it! If running SFC doesn't fix things then you
have to move up the scale of fixes again, at that point maybe a System
Restore can fix things or maybe your options are getting scarce and you
may have to resort to a repair install. There is no cut and dry answer to
your question, all I can say is start with the obvious easy suggested
fixes to the problem at hand, if the easy fixes don't work then try the
more elaborate (or less palatable) fixes.

John

Roman wrote:

John,

You're absolutely right: $64K question.

Life is so much depending on computer, it is nice to know how to trouble
shoot when problem starts.
There are all sort of problems associated with computers.
The problem could be caused by software, hardware, or overwriting system
files.
To laymen, if we know the situation when we could fix certain problems
simply by running sfc/ scannow, that could save time and money before
bringing computers to shop.
That is my question.

Roman








"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That is the $64,000 question! ;-)

If you get error messages telling you that dll's are missing you might
want to run the command. If you are having problems and if Windows or
Internet Explorer are not running properly you might want to run the
command.

John

Roman King wrote:


How can you tell system files were overwritten or corrupted?

Roman



"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you think system files have been overwritten or damaged or that they
may be mismatched running SFC could fix things.

Description of the Windows File Protection feature
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222193

John

Roman King wrote:



I would like to now under what situation I should use sfc/scannow.
When I had lots of problem with my computer, I could use sfc /scannow.
But I do not know what exactly sfc/ scannow does.
Please enlighten me. Thanks. Roman






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