this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
935 points (99.6% liked)

linuxmemes

22425 readers
1750 users here now

Hint: :q!


Sister communities:


Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
  • Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
  • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
  • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
  • 5. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Language/язык/Sprache
  • This is primarily an English-speaking community. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
  • Comments written in other languages are allowed.
  • The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
  • Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
  • Β 

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!


    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.

    founded 2 years ago
    MODERATORS
    935
    Was this reply helpful? (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 91 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    The Microsoft support forums are on a whole level of their own, when it comes to being useless.

    sfc /scannow and the troubleshooting button in the settings do fuck all, and compared to the usual systemd journal, the event log rarely gives you any useful information whatsoever

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    sfc /scannow does fix certain problems, just not nearly as many as the Microsoft support forum would like.

    I do agree with you on the log, although that's often because whichever component is misbehaving just doesn't believe in error logs. I'm looking at you, Nvidia.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

    Are you trying to say that error 43 isn’t the only thing you’d ever need to know about it?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

    Actually I had an issue where trying to sign into my samba share caused explorer.exe to crash constantly, running sfc /scannow fixed it surprisingly. Glad that's on my "these programs only work on Windows" system.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

    I have never had ms troubleshoot button or autofix button ever do anything but return "no problems found". And yes, I've also tried it in every one of those 20 control panels.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

    Sometimes it makes a network connection work temporarily.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and pray it fixes everything before you reinstall.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

    sfc /scannow and the troubleshooting button in the settings do fuck all

    Hey, that's not true! sfc takes forever to run, so it's a good way to waste time and get even more frustrated.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

    It's at the level where, after spending hours there, I feel like it has to be a conspiracy to waste your time. Because there is no way there could organically be that many posts about a topic without there being any useful or correct information.