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I like your video but this background music is horrible.

Very pleasant way of explaining. I'm watching from Germany and can understand every single word without any problems. Not the usual croaking :-) -- Thank you! 👍

WOW! Thank You.

Great overview, hope it goes viral man!

Great video, very informative. Also your voice has a very Owen Wilson timbre

Make your screen bigger. We can't see what you're typing.

The only recommendation I would make to you is verbally tell people when you are leaving spaces before your backslashes. It's kind of important as everyone will find out as they attempt to follow your advice. And maybe you should consider removing bad advice from other commenters such as those that suggest running format C: to screw with newbies.

Thank you for the God Mode which I didn't know. Note that Windows did let me rename its icon but then, when I double-clicked on it, Explorer displayed an empty folder 😆

I LOVE random cmd lines!

Do these commands need to be done inside powershell only? Can't they be done inside CMD admin as well....thanks!

if or which cloud storage is good for installing server on? stable and safe,please? thank you

This is really interesting and pretty cool!

Can you please publish here the reference you are referring to? Thank you

Impressively straightforward and to the point.

none of this worked on mine. came up differently and different directories.

40 Seconds in ; i'm guess - timating, SFC ....system file checker.....

Thanks, James. My Win 11 PC has been having trouble after every MS forced update for the past year (Black screen after boot that required logging off/on just to see desktop icons, lockups during a video, etc). These four tricks seem to have fixed it better than new. Salute from Canada.

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Much needed much appreciated. Liking you approach so far Suggest one video using terminal and one doing the same thing without the terminal. I realise more can be done through using terminal but newbies like meprefer spending more time getting our work done than working on the machinery picking up clues along the way. Such mundane things as saving a Libre doc in a new folder. I did eventually work out how by switching from the libre menue to file manager then back to the libre save menue. but am left wondering is there a better way.

James, I enjoyed your video. Very informative. I was most interested in how you shared that File History folder. For months I have been trying to share folders on the data drives of my 3 Dell Computers all running Windows 11 on my local ethernet network. I have had no success in having these files accessible in File Explorer > Network (even with Microsoft Tech Support!) Please do a video on this (seemingly easy) process, i.e. to share data drive files between 3 computers, running Windows 11, on a local ethernet network. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise.

How does "dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth" deal with updates? You said it restores corrupt files to their original. What about all the updates that have gone on? Are corrupted files tossed for earlier versions?

does this work on windows 7

Very useful commands! especially the 1st one!

The "SFC /SCANNOW" has cured faults on my PC a few times.

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as far as the last bit you talked about windows installation media. would it remove any files from pc? i keep running into issue with nearly EVERY Microsoft update where nothing will load or open including cmd and task mngr. wont even allow shutdwn or restart. i am beyond frustrated with their BS. ive git a 4mth old and when i finally have ME time i dont wanna spend it troublshooting and reinstalling windows and all my games ect. any advice for this kinda nonsense? sry for grammar baby in on my lap :)

said command is not recognized on my hp with windows 11

you have a good presentation voice and style, well done

this is for win 11 not ten

Running windows 10 upon right clicking on the Start menu I don't see anything like your screen. So are these things only portrayed like this in Windows 11 if so F'en SAY THAT in the beginning Boss.

Your website is broken - Heads Up

Thanks. Does this work in Win 10 with PowerShell?

great video, but I just had to pause to tell you this: You are wrong about "dism /online" It does NOT check against some Microsoft hosted image over the internet. What they mean by "online" is the image which is actually in use by the windows kernel. Dism can also operate against images which aren't currently running and exist in, for instance, WIM files. (Windows image files)

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Thanks, James, for explaining this so simply even for an 83 year old non geek like me

The background music(crap) is bloody irritating. 1. It is too loud & 2. It is irritatingly repetative

Good Information, I made a note of it all. Now a question. My system has been hacked and the hacker continues to be a big problem for me. I have found no software that can track and identify the hacker so I assume I'll need a professional that specializes in this work. I've checked with our local & state law enforcement but they cannot help. Do you have any suggestions? This hacker has destroyed over a million dollars of business files and prevented me from working on my computer for a long time. Is there any federal agency that will help? I'm sure there are more questions but I cannot think of them. ANY and ALL recommendations would be very helpful and appreciated .....

Thank you so much, ive had problems with my laptop sice I upgraded to windows 11 and couldnt find any problems, ran the commands you recommended and after the scannow command I received the message corrupt files found and repaired.... So hopefully all will be good once Ive rebooted.

As a computer operator since 1984 I’ve used the SFC /SCANNOW command more times than I even wanna remember. I’ve yet to have it fix ANYTHING …instead I always get a pop up message that’s says “we found errors but cannot fix them…please try again later or seek help somewhere else” or something very close to that (I was paraphrasing). So, I’m sure you know already that between 1984 and 2024 I’ve had ‘several’ PCs and ‘several’ laptops along the way in that 40 year span starting with Windows 3.1…so this problem I’ve explained can’t possibly be related to one device being 40 years old. Microsoft is a joke this day and time, and, now they’re threatening everyone with Windows 10 if you don’t update to Windows 11 (still buggy I might add) or you’ll have to pay until they decide to quit providing all updates to Windows 10. Seems like to me every ‘update’ either screws up your computer or adds a ton of unnecessary bloatware. Really Microsoft? SMH.

NO. Finally a geek that claims it's easy but it is not. This is a frustration rant. It wasn't until the end of the video that you mumbled something about windows 11 and 10. It took me awhile to figure out that you were talking about 'command prompt'. That other thing does not exist on my windows 10 machine. THEN my version of DISM does NOT recognize anything about cleanup-image / etc. Finally I tried SFC. That worked. It told me it corrected something. Good enough. I'm not about to step into a pile of something like this again for some time. Good night.

Does these commands for Windows 10 and Windows 11.

what is the WatchDog error

How effective will this be if MS just pushed another update - over my "no automatic updates"?

!(: Cool, THANKS ;)!

Thanks. I knew about SFC, but not DISM 👍

Goldmine! Thanks a lot! 🙏 🤘🏼

Finally a geek that is easy to understand and gets right to the point.

Why do I have to fix it constantly while all I am doing is playing games? An OS allowing itself to be corrupted so easily and frequently is a huge disgrace. I would switch to Linux yesterday if my online games worked on it properly. Game companies must make their games compatible with Linux. I wish there was a way to make them do that.

at the 2:32 mark when you said you actually did it on purpose. ..did you really do it to show us ..or did you just forget to do run as admin in the first place

I wonder why all these Linux fanatics are watching Windows videos.