Tim said:
System File Checker only displays dialog boxes if it has an error with
locating the original installation files or needs to restore anything.
If it exists with no problems it could have only reported : Nothing was out
of place!
The reason it does not display any boxes on exit when no corrupt files were
found, is because it was designed to be able to run at system startup.
If it stopped to display dialog boxes, it would unnecessarily halt the boot
process.
Have you not tried the obvious and opened the Event Log?
I opened the Event Viewer before posting, if that's what you are
referring to. There was only a record of "Windows File Protection file
scan completed successfully" in the System section, but nothing about
what was found.
Your explanation of how the app works coincides with what I was able to
glean from further investigation
Thanks
type : eventvwr.msc into the "Run" box on the Start Menu and look under
the "System" section.
It will be logged as "Information" when it starts and exists and as "Error"
if it came across a corrupt file or could not locate the original
installation files.
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