Re: Sfc /scannow

Roman

Before you move on regarding System File Checker. A lot of problems
resolve down to problematic drivers or memory. Where this is the case
you often do not know which it is so you work through the easier
solutions. If your Window XP CD contains the SP2 update using System
File Checker is an easy task. It's not easy if your original Windows XP
CD is pre SP2 as you need a slipstreamed CD to run System File Checker.
A slipstreamed CD is a CD where the contents of the original XP CD and
the SP2 update have been merged.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Roman wrote:
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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