SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

Brink said:

Well, if you develop issues from the corrupted files, you could:

• Take ownership of the corrupted files and "Allow" your adminsitrator account "Full Control" of them.
• Extract a good copy of these files from your Vista installation disc to your desktop.
• Replace the corrupted files with the extracted files.

Thanks, Brink. After extensive testing, I gave the laptop back to its owner (a neighbor). It ran great and seemed to have no issues. He'll let me know if there are. You likely know this, but I recently learned that just because SFC questions the integrity of some changed files doesn't mean they are 'corrupt'. Running SFC/scannow on one of my Win7 machines (ult 64) resulted in breaking WM (from Vista), which was a minor hack, but not 'corrupt'. SR restored my back to it.

I suppose I'm going to have to find time soon to hunt for an email program I like as much as the old (non-live) WM.

Thanks for your response and the pointers.

James

Thanks Brink for this thread. I was able to solve an error message with it.
I had a problem with a missed dll : msvcp60.dll and the sfc/ scannow command fixed it among other corrupted dll.
Again thank you

As best I could, I followed the steps. The command line findstr seemed to tke a very long time. a file search locates no txt file in the recent past. Got a zero length sfcdetails file with no suffix.

The pseudoDOS screen apparently wraps OK; note the spelling of some responses to commands.

Where do I go from here?

THX. I'm doing now sfc/scannow. Hope for the best!

SFC checks for missing/corrupt system files and attempts to repair/replace them. For bad sectors you'd want chkdsk.

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