Andre Da Costa said:
Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories and right-click
on the Command Prompt and choose "Run as administrator".
Type in: SFC /SCANNOW and press your Enter key.
I see this advice given quite often here, and you're right in
advising users to try this.... it is a basic troubleshooting tool
that *may* fix users' problems. Probably, not.
This will repair/replace any corrupted system files.
It *might* repair/place any corrupted system files.
I don't think SFC always works properly. In the 18
months that I have been using Vista, when I had a
problem with one of my Vista machines and was
quite sure that it was a system file- SFC *never*
fixed anything.... never. Mostly, blah, blah about how
it couldn't repair such and such. Didn't matter if SFC
was used in Safe Mode, either. System Restore has proved
far more effective at solving issues than SFC.
Ironically, I found the opposite to be true with WinXP.
SFC in XP, in my experience, seemed to work a lot of
the time. I did not trust System Restore in XP and
thought it to be useless enough to just disable it.
Not so in Vista, SR is much more robust and accurate.
More than not (almost always), I see users report back
here that SFC did absolutely nothing to help them, while
it spits out it was unable to repair so on and so forth blah
blah blah.
This mini rant isn't directed towards you, Andre.
But, I do think that for some reason(s) SFC in Vista
is flawed. It never seems to help anyone, and it
certainly has never helped me.
-Michael
