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• When is a system beyond repair?

  Posted on March 11, 2024 at 02:41 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  I’m giving up. I hate giving up.

  It annoys me, but I’m giving up on repairing operating systems. Why? Because we’ve reached the point where an operating system can become so damaged that not only can we not fully identify the cause, but also the system cannot be repaired with the tools provided for that purpose.

  There’s a reason I’m in this state of mind.

  The other day, someone in the forums asked me to start a section of Patch Watch to track those updates that did this kind of damage to the extent that the system became unbootable. But here’s the thing: no update is designed to make systems unbootable.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.11.0, 2024-03-11).

  Patch Watch Device Manager, DISM, KB5001716, KB5034441, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Registry cleaners, SFC, System File Checker, VMWare, vSphere

• Microsoft: Mumble mumble just ignore Windows Defender mumble mumble

  Posted on July 16, 2019 at 15:00 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Remember the sfc /scannow stupidity – where scanning a perfectly good Windows installation triggered errors such as, “Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files…” ? Susan wrote about it a week ago.

  @EP just posted a link to an official Microsoft explanation, KB 4513240, that sounds similar:

  The System File Checker (SFC) tool flags files in %windir%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Defender as corrupted or damaged. You see error messages such as the following:

  Hashes for file member do not match.

  This is a known issue in Windows 10, version 1607 and later versions, and Windows Defender version 4.18.1906.3 and later versions…. Future releases of Windows will use the updated files in the Windows image. After that, SFC will no longer flag the files.

  At least, I think it’s the same problem.

  So if you run sfc /scannow with any version of Win10 prior to 1909, you just need to know — by osmosis, no doubt — that you should ignore the error message.

  Meshuggeneh.

  Windows 10 SFC

• Microsoft confirms patch KB 3022345 breaks SFC /scannow

  Posted on May 26, 2015 at 10:18 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Even though SFC /scannow reports corrupt system files, in fact, the files aren’t corrupt at all. It’s just that Microsoft’s file scanner gets confused by Microsoft’s files.

  Oy.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3022345, SFC