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Hello, again. I was wondering if it's advisable to run SFC /scannow on a regular basis, or only if your PC is experiencing issues, sort of similar to running an AV program regularly. What say you? Thanks...Ed

Dear All, I have been searching a solution for this strange issue for long. I'm an IT Admin in a windows domain where few PCs are affected with this issue. When users delete files, it gets deleted permanently and do not go to Recycle Bin. Users do get alert that file will be deleted...

I am having trouble with a new upgrade in that occasionally the computer spontaneously re-boots and produces a blue screen, I tried to run sfc.exe /scannow from the run box but all that happens is a flash over the desktop. I suspect it is because I am not running as administrator. How can I...

Recently I had a bad Windows 10 computer crash. The PC totally locked up, and the only thing I could do was power it down and power it back up. The first thing I noticed was that my entire Windows Live Mail database was gone - not a single message of the thousands that should have been there was...

Obviously the user can check the consistency of a FULL, whole NTFS hard disk by performing a "chkdsk" command and run in addition one of the well known tools (like MiniTool Partition Wizard) a surface test to check whether all sectors of a hard disk are ok. But what if I don't want to check the...

I have the MS Store icon (shopping Bag) on my taskbar and the tile in the start menu. When I try to open either I get the blue screen with the shopping bag in center then the screen goes turns to white and nothing else happens. The bar across top has the word "store" on the left and the usual...

I go this error when doing sfc /scannow and was wondering what is was about. Any help greatly appreciated. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.log. windir/logs/CBS/CBS.log. For example C;\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log...

I have run sfc /scannow a number of times (as an administrator) and I always get a message that says System File Checker has found corrupted files but cannot repair some of them. I have opened the Log and have found many files which SFC says are corrupted. In Windows XP, there was an easy way...

Hi So, after a few years I decided to try Linux again. I chose Puppy Linux because it sounded nice, easy and fast. I made a bootable USB flash drive, booted from the USB and tested Puppy Linux. After the try-out I booted back to Windows and began experiencing some problems: 1. All the USB...

I posted a similar thread but received no replies. I'll ask again in a new thread in slightly different format............... Win 10 TP users : Please do a system file check and post back your results. Both my laptops returned with corrupt files but unable to repair. I suspect the culprit is...

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Hi all, I recently reinstalled windows 7 (after a full format) on my laptop (which was working fine but getting a bit bloated). Ever since I keep getting random freezes/BSODs. I have no clue what is causing it since sometimes it BSODs immediately after system startup, sometimes when installing...

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Hello, recently I've been receiving this error. It always appears when windows is first starting. Usually it will happen once, then once the PC restarts it will boot fine. Just today however, the error repeated itself 4 times, and I was forced to run a system restore(which made me able to boot...

Hi, guys., my friend's PC was fine until he re-signed in to him account today, after then it's crashed (BSOD), and code is: 0xc000021 here is crash dump analysis: On Thu 2014-05-01 00:39:36 GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\050114-17578-01.dmp This was probably...

Aloha peeps, I'm having a problem i believe after installing a proggie called FilExile. I had some long directories on my external hard drive and i couldn't erase them. Thought i needed a special program to erase them and all it needed was quick CHKDSK /f and it converted them to data I erased...

i have drive with two partition, C working fine, D is system reserve E put following problem chkdsk report is attatched after chkdsk E drive show no label and ask to format when try to open what to do Chkdsk was executed in read/write mode. Checking file system on E: The type of the...

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