One thing to keep in mind, is sometimes we can have some weird problems with our windows computers! For example not too long ago I had helped a client who was having some glitches with their start menu. This was actually a pretty easy fix. This short post doesn’t just apply to this issue, it applies to many weird things that you might not have some answers for. Maybe other ways to fix common problems doesn’t work. Maybe Maybe you don’t even know where to start!
Well, a lot of times this can help. It uses a few commands in CMD, but don’t be scared!
If we need to run CMD with admin privileges. A quick way to do that is:
- Hit Win+R
- type in “cmd”
- Instead of hitting the Ok button, hit the keystroke Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Awesome. Now lets run the commands
First type in:
sfc /scannowIf you’re lucky you wont find any integrity violations and no corrupt system files. On the other hand if it does find issues, it will attempt to repair them. Most of the time I’ve found in my experience it does successfully. So its done repairing what now? Well, it’s a good idea to run the following command after.
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealthThis connect to Microsoft servers so it can grab whatever it needs to do to system files.
After you’re done, sometimes its good to run sfc again, but I’ve never really needed to do that.
BAM! Done! Useful tip right?