Hi Kerry ... Thanks for your very thoughtful opinion .... So the way I
see it is , The system file checker service no purpose at all , I mean
when ever you perform a scan with it , There no data as to what happen
afterward , Or whether there was any correction made , So if someone
was to check each and every hot fix ( From Microsoft update site files
) before installing them , Later on as time goes if one of them hotfix
might of gotten corrupted you are saying that its best to find out
which updates are most likely to cause the symptoms , Find it , Then
uninstall it , Then use google or what ever resource is available and
see what the correction might be ? Then once there is a solution , use
it ? So more or less you are basically manually doing what System File
Checker should have done but couldn't ? TIA
SFC works very well for what it was intended to do, fixing problems with
system files that have been deleted or are the wrong version. It will not
fix problems with updates breaking 3rd party apps. It will not repair files
affected by file system corruption unless the corruption is bad enough that
it can't read the version number of the file. My understanding of how it
works is it checks version numbers of system files and replaces files either
not found or found with an incorrect version number. It looks first for the
dllcache folder then for the install source. You can change where it looks
for the install source via a registry edit. I have experienced situations
where Windows updates had to be reapplied after using SFC. SFC is a tool
with limited ability. I sometimes use it as a last resort when other
troubleshooting methods have failed. It sometimes causes more problems than
it solves. Unless you slipstream a CD or other install source with every
update it may not work. This is why I only use it as a last resort. SFC is
not a replacement for doing backups. The best tool for fixing system file
corruption is an up to date disk image. With the current price of hard
drives there is no excuse for not having a current disk image before and
after applying any updates, installing a new program etc.. Anything less and
you are taking a chance that something may go wrong.
Kerry
