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Windows v 1803 – OS Build 17134.48 and sfc /scannow

May 11, 2018 12:08PM PDT

Updated to newest version on May 1st. Only a few minor issues which I was able to resolve. Ran chkdsk /f /r /x a couple to days later. No issues. Yesterday, May 10th I decided to run sfc /scannow, just because. Sfc /scannow stated it found a number of “issues” and was able to fix them. Today, May 11th, again, just because, I decided to run sfc /scannow again. This time I got the following message, which is all good: Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

Should you run sfc /scannow, up to you, but maybe consider when a “major” update is done like “Fall” and “Spring” updates.

If someone has some additional suggestions to check or run I'll give it a try.

Thanks in advance

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Interesting.
May 11, 2018 12:10PM PDT

Other than this, what lead you to run SFC? What issue or bug?

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I updated my 'sisters' computer on Wednesday
May 11, 2018 2:22PM PDT

and it took forever. Maybe '3 hours'. Even after I had done the necessary prep for the update. Running 'anti' stuff and updated all her programs before beginning the update. My 'update' was somewhat quick, maybe 30 minutes. I installed Boot racer on her machine, not an "SSD", by the way and, after everything, it took almost '3' minutes to boot. Again, after everything, making the minor fixes etc. My machine has an SSD so it boots under a minute. Anyway, point being I wanted to run sfc /scannow on my machine just to see if it found anything and if it did maybe I should then run sfc /scannow on her machine. It might help. That's it. So reason trying to see if I could improve her machine, which I will visit next week sometime and maybe try stuff.

Thanks for replying.

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Here, I Don't Run SFC Unless File Errors Are Being Found
May 11, 2018 3:38PM PDT

Although I have found a benefit to running Chkdsk after the major Windows 10 update/upgrades (It's cleared up some hard drive bad sectors and file system errors on a few computers I've worked on and I'm not quite sure why that's become a problem with Windows 10 installs, but I've seen it.), I've not had any reason to run SFC which looks for actual corrupt and missing Windows files.

Just my opinion though.

Hope this helps.

Grif