Mostly this is good advice however the chkdsk procedure needs to be run early in the process not later. If your storage device has file allocation errors then all those sfc and dism procedures can actually just make things worse! Open a command prompt as admin, type chkdsk c: /f and enter yes to run at next reboot and then do reboot the system. It's much better to attempt Windows repairs when you know your system drive is free from errors. PS, you could also use the /r option but that takes much longer than /f.
@@vadnegru I am aware of that option, it seems to be related more to files checking and I've found it sometimes reports the drive as "OK" but CrystalDiskInfo shows SMART errors are present on the drive indicating degradation with certain SMART parameters, this is a more informative technical test.
@@johnbufton1487 chkdsk have nothing to do with your disk stats. It only fixes file system errors. If your S.M.A.R.T. are bad only thing you can do are backup and buy another drive.
Good show Mike. I love seeing industry vets jump in these guide videos and add to or correct or explain things a bit further. Doing this without internet malice (like you did) makes all of us in the field look better. Much love m8
I know I'm late to the game, but this man allowed me to recover a lot of data I would have lost otherwise. Good videos for people who are novice and not computer savvy.
i remember in win98,the sfc was so much easier and had gui..you were able to specify the address to the installation source "which always worked " unlike now and i never had any "not be able to fix" .... also reinstalling windows with keeping files always worked unlike the newer versions where sometimes it forces you to have clean installation
So, I was having a problem where my Dell E6420 would freeze before windows started. It was somewhat intermittent, which I can't explain, but after managing to get it to boot to windows I ran the SFC command and got a report that it had found and corrected some problems. I then ran DISM which completed without reporting any problems. I restarted successfully and ran SFC again. This time it reported no problems found. I have now shut down and booted from power off successfully 3 times. It appears you have helped me fix the issue I was having. I have now subscribed and will sing your praises everywhere I go. 1000 thanks!
The best video of all time this video saved my computer it couldn't update anything I thing I got trojan from somewhere and I deleted it but the damage on my computer was done and I couldn't for a year download any windows update and FINALLY I CAN thanks to you so much:)
The first option fixed it this morning. I don't know why it's not finding any corrupted files now and I've already ran DISM and don't want to have to reset my laptop or start with a clean installation of Windows without losing my stuff or have to create a non corrupted user file.
I have been having trouble with Windows 10 even with new updates for sometime. Tried sfc and it worked an did the trick for me. Thank you ThioJoe for this video.😀
@5:27 You mention to create a new profile on your computer, how would you do this if the computer isn't booting? Please help I'm not understanding how you are able to do this things on a computer that won't boot? I'm using a second computer to watch this video and can't seem to figure out how he's able to do this things on the same computer that doesn't boot?? You also mentioned to NOT create a USB drive with the boot info but to save it directly to your computer?? How is this possible if the computer is not booting up to get into any of these screens. All I did was connect a mic and now I cannot boot back up? I've tried everything and nothing works is my computer dead because of a mic?? If anybody is reading this can you please help me...:(
Dude, you are such a good explainer of tech, I'm glad you moved on from the joke videos. I mean they were indeed funny, but you have the capacity to provide content that'S actually useful to many people. As a non-native speaker, I also find your accent and manner of speaking easy to understand.
In my opinion this damaged profile problem is widespread, I had reinstalled Windows 11 from scratch 2 times and anyway I have problems with Windows update, with all the sfc and dism commands that detect errors but do not solve them, Windows 11 slow in everything except in games and more but i used to connect the same microsoft profile all the time, i will try to use a new one, 80% i think this is my problem.
Pro tip when creating a local user. If you want to avoid the ridiculous "security questions". Don't set a password when creating a new user. Wait till you login to that account. Then to set a password go back to settings-> accounts->sign-in options->password
Thank you. This worked to correct my "Could not complete your updates" problem. It took the "The Last Resort" option in your video, but it did fix the problem without having to do a clean reinstall.
I've been having blues screen of deaths a lot recently..it's usually either CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED or KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR. I've tried almost everything, i even tried changing the mother board, storage, processer and nothing seemed to work. I can really use some help on this. Thank you .
My problem is in Windows Security app.. That "Standard hardware security not supported" thing And i tried so many things even resetting windows with keeping personal files but sadly my problem still exists.. Please help me fix this bro. I tried to fix BIOS Settings also. 🥺😢
Believe it or not, using God Mode from an earlier post of yours solved (so far!) an issue I was experiencing where my PC would just shut down exactly 30 minutes after start-up. It was annoying as that I would fix it, then it would go back to shutting down again. I am glad you have the heart of a teacher...Great post!
@world away You are correct. It did turn out to be a hardware issue. I replaced the motherboard, and that solved the problem. It was an issue with the mobo bios...
I had a boot problem not too long ago where all of these options failed so solve the issue. What ended up solving it for me was by taking a look at the system partitions in DISKPART. The boot partition was showing “raw” instead of “fat32” for the file system. Using a usb with the windows recovery environment, I was able to format that partition back to fat32, assign it a drive letter, and using bcdboot, rebuilt the EFI boot partition back onto it. Hope this helps someone.
Thank you. A whole lot of my windows system apps (e.g. get help, microsoft store, etc.) were not working and I thought some very very hidden system files got corrupted after a freeze-up and force reboot during windows update. Turn out to be a corrupted user profile. This saved me a lot a lot a lot of time.
PRO TIP: If you see the progress bar has stopped, you may have clicked on the CMD window and stopped it rendering. It will continue running, and to see the progress just press ESC to stop selecting and unfreeze the window.
I've been struggling with an update that fails EVERY DAY. The reinstall windows process at 6:40 worked like a charm! It also updated me from 21H1 to 21H2. Thanks Joe!
@@stealth-bh9ep Try the repair upgrade, it's the only thing that fixed my failed Windows updates. Absolutely nothing else worked and I was trying to fix it for months to no avail.
Same issue with windows update (mine: 0x80071160 error on KB500821) and it was solved! sfc could not fix corrupted files it had found and DISM gave an error 4448. The Win 10 reinstall process (with an ISO) did the trick. No more issues with sfc and DISM after. Big thnx to ThioJoe.
If this doesn't work with my windows 11 error code 0xc0000e i will gladly switch to nobara Linux distro. I'm so tired dealing with this blue screen problems with windows. PC specs: Os: Atlas modified version of windows 11 for better optimization CPU: Ryzen 5 5600g Ddr4: 2x8: 16 gigs of ram Hyper x 2400 mhz Am4: Motherboard: Asus prime A320M-K bios updated to the lastest version PSU: rave 500 watt's 80 plus white 120 gigabyte SSD 1 terabyte m.2 SSD 1 terabyte HDD
with the assistance of MS support i was able to fix corruption on around 15 servers running server 2008 and/or 2012. the process was the painstaking one you had to follow, retrieving good copies of the cabs from other computers, windows iso's or downloading the specific versions of KBs that came with them. In some cases Microsoft had to provide some of the KBs as they are no longer available to the public. These older operating systems are harder to fix as the build info is not documented (words of the ms tech). server 2019 and windows 10 now has this info published so tracking down the required updates is alot quicker. The corruption issues i faces were due to either machines being rebooted whilst an update was installing or the machine rebooting with pending patches whilst the C drive was completly full (never reboot with a full disk).
Looks like I am on the same boat, my sfc doesn't work, I dont have another pc/laptop from which i can copy the winsxs folder. My winsxs folder is corrupted
You should also go over fixing an installation that wont boot. Like using WinPE to rebuild the BCD file or fixing MBR. Windows installation media also has a repair/ recovery tool, when you boot from it. It is in the bottom left corner on the language/ keyboard selection screen.
@@OstenTV_DK I was referring to WinPE I don't know what it is. But I meant I wish I knew about that as it may have helped. Whereas I did a super manual route of recovery.
@@Ballissle it is a Microsoft tool that you can boot from. It is like the windows installation except it only has basic tools. You can also use the windows installation and press shift +F10 to get to CMD. The bootrec command is very useful to fix that kind of issues.
There are a lot of unmentioned steps to be taken before a reinstall. The average PC user should run troubleshooting or the specific FixIt to correctly diagnose/fix their issue. Use the tools available to you if you aren’t a “guru”. Also, if you suspect it’s a profile issue, make sure you’re not logging into a temp profile.
Been doing those repairs on command prompt except the installation upgrades on bsod problems, and mostly they didn't work (sometimes the chkdsk /f does some repairs that works), so I usually ended up, backing files, and reformat or reinstall again the Windows, which I find much easier that trying to fix the BSODs..
After a crappy MS update last year, which corrupted my image files and required a rollback, I said screw it. I turned off all updates via registry, except Defender. Stopped updating everything. My life is so much easier now!
I have purchased a new laptop previous month and facing problems with it such as programs were suspended, brave gets hang, vs code corrupts , etc. Even my laptop's specs is not that low end. Ryzen 5 4500U 8gb ram 256 GB SSD But I couldn't get any solution and after performing the steps mentioned in your video, I can find the errors and fix them. Thank you so much for the help. Your videos are always helpful. ❤️
Uh... Then the solution is to only reinstall windows (and if you're thinking using an Microsoft official iso and installing using it will not ruin your product key. It will activate itself online 😎😎😎)
@@rayirth.upside-down i can make a guess 32 gigs of ram 4.5 TB SSD ryzen 9-5700x Nvidia rtx 3080-ti gaming I have 12gigs of ram (upgraded by harvesting 4gbs of ram from my old laptop it's different MHz and i consistent but it still works for me it was originally 8gbs) Intel core i5 comet lake And a not bad Nvidia GeForce mx130 It's a hp 15s laptop i regret buying a laptop because at the time i bought that laptop i could have built an high performance beast for the same price but at that time i had an new system but built with 2007 specs for under 70$ at that time i thought laptops were better And i was not making content i thought I would just use it for online class and s**t And now If i build the same pc the cost would be almost 4x higher it will 4,00,000 inr USD:approx 4,000$!!! And also he's not flexing his laptop he's just telling the specs so no probs 😎😎
@@techtriggr Actually you are super low, its a Ryzen 9 5950X, 128GB of ram, 8TB Chungus Sabrent nvme drive, 16TB Seagate disk, Dual RTX 3090 (yea I am the one responsible for the shortages as people say). He was indeed trying to flex corruption has nothing to do with specs and if he is a coder he should know that even better!
Do u have any tutorial to fix someone's stupidity? I accidentally messed up WindowsApps permitions and now my computer doesn't even go to the login page. It just hangs in a black screen with the mouse after booting. I tried icacls but it gives acess denied for 2/3 of the files, the important ones And yes, I did it from the recovery console, cuz dats the only console I can run
Nice job. Important information regarding Windows issues. I, like another fellow, got a DISM msg Error: 0x800f081f "source files could not be found." Will followup soon,
To avoid corruption turn off Write-caching for drives that contain the OS. If you don't then any type of crash or power failure will result in system file corruption.
This is one of those esoteric settings that not many people talk about. I have (on two occasions) lost files after a crash or cold reboot, presumably because the file was "saved" but pending its actual write to disk, meaning when I booted up the system the file seemed intact from the outside, but contained no actual data (a hex editor showed only null bytes for the entire stated length of the file).
7:13 I know you can do that, But will the UEFI Screen Resolution and The OEM Logo And Apps Be there? (My OEM is Dell) Its because than than they will find out I reinstalled windows Using a ISO.
Thank you! I was struggling to figure out what was wrong with my PC for weeks and I was so sure it was a hardware fault (random freezes and very bad performance and stuttering constantly) using the windows ISO to reinstall windows + keeping my files and apps worked PERFECTLY and everything feels back to it's good old self! 👍👍
Sir you dont know the beginning of it. Recently I found a windows optimizing prodigy named Khorvie Tech he has a really keen sense with computers and made my 8 year old x99 motherboard work really fast, cpu automatically went to constant 3.7ghz (xeon i7 6900-k LOL) the base ghz is 2.4-2.5 before I messed around and my total boot time into unsupported win 11 on old hardware is less than 15 seconds. I do have a 3090 but it is ddr4 at only 3300mhz which I believe is the max stable megahertz or close to it for ddr4. Edit: I left out the best part. Nothing is overclocked besides the ram with a very cool temp which is why I daily'd it. The boost on the CPU maxes at 3800mhz or 3.8Ghz using intel turbo boost and a few youtubers have gotten it to 4.0-4.1ghz. Apparently it seems when you remove windows OS bloat it allows the hardware to communicate easier or at the very least quicker.
Here's what I do to fix any Windows issue: Rollback to a previous Acronis backup. I'll go all the way back to a "base" install (with just the necessary program installed and set up), if need be, and then I'll just retrieve the documents and such from a later backup. Games will remain untouched, as they're on another SSD. Easy.
If you run the installer from a USB or DVD, you will get the same installation options as "mount". That's the way it has been working for me anyhow. Just an FYI, there is a registry addition that can be installed called "Take Ownership". This will take ownership of any files or folders you want it to, with a right click.
thanks so much for this, i contacted multiple microsoft agents but no one could solve this, they said to reinstall, but you fixed it, microsoft is trash! I've had this problem for like a month and half, I wish i saw this video earlier.
Great informative video! Would be also great if you could do part 2, where you would use mentioned chkdsk, bootrec, bcdedit, diskpart and similiar. Also, something related with repairing Windows boot partition or boot in general (I know there are plenty of videos, but yours are pretty enjoyable!) Thanks for the video!
Btw my laptop sometimes show black screen after the logo of the manufacturer or sometimes have a bsod device power state failure idk if it's windows corruption or something else and idk how to fix it. Can someone help?
You should outline the other parameters of SFC and or Sscannow. There are a number of different commands that can be run that go beyond the basics that you mentioned! As a tip if you enter SFC /RUNNOW a list of optional commands will display that show you what I am talking about.
Don't use SFC /RUNNOW to see the commands-. That is because /Runnow is not a valid parameter, so it will show you them, but it is not the proper way to. Use SFC /? for help.
so like my pc shut down durig an update and we had to reinstall windows so if somethingh like this happens again how will i open cmd?? will i have to put in the usb and tyoe some shortcut keys to oepn it?? and when its done i will just have to restart windows??? pls answer my questions huge respect and my pc which powered off bcs of power outage during an update.and later and it was stuck at the recovery screen so this also happened bcs of file coruption right???
One other possibility if all else fails: restore a system drive backup made when everything was running as it should. If that doesn't work, start suspecting a hardware problem. Since I do fresh backups often and keep the last 5, that's something I might try before I did a repair install.
Let's face it, most people do not bother with backups. If you ask if they've mad a backup they will glare at you as if you were speaking Silbo Gomero. Even if they have made one, they wouldn't know what to do with it. People just want the system to work and do the the things they want without all the hassle.
@@telebubba5527 True my main C drive is a 4TB nvme with 3.1 filled up, Where should I copy that metric shit ton of data I mean yes I have a nas and yea I have unlimited google drive but it really gets impractical
yes. this is one of those times, being entirely online, doesn't actually help. at least with cd/dvd's you were sure, you had a good copy, if you bought it legitimately.
How do you do the repair install if you can't get into windows in the first place (account locked out after reboot). . You said you can only keep programs and files if you do this t from within Windows. Why can't you use the usb method since most times you need to do this repair process when you can't get into windows hence why your stuck.!!??
When I first watched this video I was in an absolute panic. I thought I lost my 4+ years worth of files , videos, shenanigans & creations that I've made and collected over time . I was absolutely devastated when I saw how screwed I thought I was. I still remember this video and I came back to say thank you for even posting this. I'm for sure going to back everything up twice onto separate SSDs if I have to.
I would be interested in learning more about how these files and settings get 'corrupted' since actual literal file corruption on the HDD or SDD is far less common than is used to be.
If you crank the CPU voltage up too much when you overclock it can cause it to not function 100% correctly. Thus as files are being written and read constantly it would be easy for one or two to become corrupt.
@@theHardwareBench That's not always the case lol... corruption of windows begins if your cpu or especially your ram overclock is beyond unstable and you continue to run windows like that for weeks. It will slowly start to corrupt everything within windows to the point that it becomes unusable over time in which you need to completely reinstall it fresh.
i have been trying for hours and nothing has really worked as the windows media creation tool was at the "Makeing sure youre ready to install" for about 3 hours so i closed it down, my problem is multiple things such as Microsoft store, Xbox App and Xbox Game Bar not loading. Also some buttons on the taskbar dont work and i randomly got signed out of onedrive and cant log back in even after installing it 3 times, then my Settings App doesn't open and right clicking on applications doesnt pop anything up, there is also another problem were the Windows Key does nothing or neither does the Search Bar. This all started happening after i turn my PC off and turned the power off to it because off bluetooth having a slight problem, then when i booted the PC back up i saw that i couldnt open the Xbox Game Bar or my Files Explorer then finding out that i got logged out of onedrive. I don't know what to do since i have watched loads of videos and none of them helped. if there is any way to fix this without making a new user since i cannot open my Settings App please let me know.
Thank you ThioJoe! The "Last Resort Repair Upgrade" method fixed my "broken component store" issue. No amount of dism commands or SFC commands could fix Windows. After the installation, SFC and dism came up clean! Perfect! Cheers!
My laptop screen is keep flickering and suddenly screen goes black I have tired reseting pc I didn't helped at all Can anyone suggest possible solution
See i had a problem when i used a program called stopupdates to stop the updates and i disabled and enabled it so microsoft apps got corrupted and cannot open and i tried to fix them a lot and didn't work
To, Theo Joe, Sir, can we use Windows System Restore Point Feature to sove these problems/issues that you've mentioned in this video? As we all know that, The Windows OS related problems/issues actually don't have any end to it, they keep come, each time with unbelievably completely unknown territory. So, can we fix such issues by using Deepfreez or System Restore Point??
Like the movie Mission Impossible, day that passes I find problems, more problems, in video, bluetooh, hard drives, the worst error in that devices do not migrate, ambiguity, updates are terrifying, they ruin almost everything, full errors perlib, dcom, Sometimes I just give up, I'm tired of restoring, SUMMARY WHAT A HORROR OPERATING SYSTEM, OF COURSE THE 11 IS THE CHAMPION, I forgot that in most cases of corruption, the sfc and dism commands are useless, and users are fed up that this is the only solution for the incompetent Microsoft
My one crashed and corrupted so i re installed it showed can't load windows already running, so installed on other drives now which is not the corrupted one
I’ve been having issues installing updates, when I go to restart my pc to update it would reach about 30% and reboot, after rebooting it would eventually reach 99% and say - something didn’t go as planned undoing changes, and it would restart and repeat this twice, eventually booting to windows. So I’m stuck in a loop where there’s a bunch of updates that need to install but can’t. Im hoping reinstalling windows fixes the issue
Great info here.😊 Super ad for Microcenter. Dell has been my favorite machine for many years, and that's coming from a technician. Personally I have never had to reinstall Windows on any machine, customers or mine, I've always fixed them. That's over 25 years of teching.
Microcenter will now build your PC if you specify the components (back in the day I built my own but don't have the time anymore) and I've heard from another RUclips channel that Dell's quality, except for their business Opticon series, has gone downhill.... I'm posting this from a refurbished Dell laptop that other than the occasional BSOD from an apparent battery issue works fine, and cost $100. 25 years and never a clean reinstall? That's impressive.
never reinstalled windows? You may not know windows 10 only takes 15-20 minutes to reinstall from bare metal. maybe an hour to get a regular business system configured. If you are spending more then an hour smacking your head into a weird issue. just cut your pride loss and reinstall. Don't waste your life tracking issues that are unlikely to ever occur again.
@@onthespottech5256 True but what if you have 1000 business computers? Is there a script to install Windows on 1k machines, and somehow download the User/Documents data from the cloud and finish all 1000 PCs in an hour? If so, Microsoft would be happy to advertise that.
THANK YOU SO MUCH Something on the kernel was corrupted an my pc wouldn't boot and startup recovery couldnt fix it So i went on the advanced settings of repair openned cmd and ran sfc /scannow Instantly found corrupted files and fixed it
Do a video on working with the registry. All the stuff you suggested came out clean. The problem is in a registry setting. I am clueless on how to find what in the registry controls the issue I have. The computer nerds repair service was also clueless and still charged me $75 for the service call. :(
If I run SFC /scan now and it says “windows resource Protection could not perform the requested operation” is this another way of it saying “could not start the repair service?”
Also I tried C:Windows\logs\CBS\CBS.log and it says “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process” please help if you can
Hi Mr. ThioJoe.... You"r Imformation is Need Full And Usefull but...after entering commands like DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth, i Hit Enter It"s Saying 740 Error Eleveted permissions are required run DISM. Then What i DO? PLease Help me
the windows setup is saying it has trouble determining if this pc can run windows 10, even though I AM running windows 10 (my issue is that settings crash whenever i open it, windows search doesn't work, and everything opens horrifically slow)
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Mostly this is good advice however the chkdsk procedure needs to be run early in the process not later. If your storage device has file allocation errors then all those sfc and dism procedures can actually just make things worse! Open a command prompt as admin, type chkdsk c: /f and enter yes to run at next reboot and then do reboot the system. It's much better to attempt Windows repairs when you know your system drive is free from errors. PS, you could also use the /r option but that takes much longer than /f.
This should be pinned
(Edit: ayo he actually pinned!)
@@anonded yes
@@vadnegru I am aware of that option, it seems to be related more to files checking and I've found it sometimes reports the drive as "OK" but CrystalDiskInfo shows SMART errors are present on the drive indicating degradation with certain SMART parameters, this is a more informative technical test.
@@johnbufton1487 chkdsk have nothing to do with your disk stats. It only fixes file system errors. If your S.M.A.R.T. are bad only thing you can do are backup and buy another drive.
Good show Mike. I love seeing industry vets jump in these guide videos and add to or correct or explain things a bit further. Doing this without internet malice (like you did) makes all of us in the field look better. Much love m8
I believe we will achieve World Peace before Windows fixes all of its bugs and issues.
Yeah, nah. World Peace is not in the cards. Gotta go to Heaven for that one.
Yea making a bug free program that's even remotely complicated is hard. And a os system makes it almost impossible.
@DEEJMASTER 333 me interviewing everyone ever to find who asked
@@imSterling yo r u okay?
Any bug fix will double the number of bugs there are. Just they will be different.
I know I'm late to the game, but this man allowed me to recover a lot of data I would have lost otherwise.
Good videos for people who are novice and not computer savvy.
One year and no one commented lol
@@TheKingOfE Why would that be a source of amusement?So,you take time to even bother to point this out?
@@nash984954 i said that flippin 5 months ago and dont even remember commenting this-
@@nash984954 Yet, YOU, sir, take time to even bother to point THIS out ?
Leave the dude alone.
i remember in win98,the sfc was so much easier and had gui..you were able to specify the address to the installation source "which always worked " unlike now and i never had any "not be able to fix" .... also reinstalling windows with keeping files always worked unlike the newer versions where sometimes it forces you to have clean installation
I loved XP
Beautiful explanation...Wish we have a 100 of yourself around the world...computer learning would become easier...!!
So, I was having a problem where my Dell E6420 would freeze before windows started. It was somewhat intermittent, which I can't explain, but after managing to get it to boot to windows I ran the SFC command and got a report that it had found and corrected some problems. I then ran DISM which completed without reporting any problems. I restarted successfully and ran SFC again. This time it reported no problems found. I have now shut down and booted from power off successfully 3 times. It appears you have helped me fix the issue I was having. I have now subscribed and will sing your praises everywhere I go. 1000 thanks!
Thank you! I've been scratching my head for 2 months.. now I scratch no more! 8~)
The best video of all time this video saved my computer it couldn't update anything I thing I got trojan from somewhere and I deleted it but the damage on my computer was done and I couldn't for a year download any windows update and FINALLY I CAN thanks to you so much:)
You just made pen & paper look much more appealing.
The first option fixed it this morning. I don't know why it's not finding any corrupted files now and I've already ran DISM and don't want to have to reset my laptop or start with a clean installation of Windows without losing my stuff or have to create a non corrupted user file.
My DISM scan stopped at 62.3% and its not moving😭😭😭
Only video that helped and fixed my issues ! Thank you 🙏
you saved my priceless files. bless you dude
I have been having trouble with Windows 10 even with new updates for sometime. Tried sfc and it worked an did the trick for me. Thank you ThioJoe for this video.😀
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Perfect!
12:52 Wait, I was under the impression that if I knew all of this them I'm technically a professional :D
Biggest problem with Windows is Microsoft was involved.
No, the biggest problem is that Indian CEO and unchecked Capitalism is involved.
@@That_One_Guy...what is that supposed to mean
The largest problem with Microsoft windows is Mac fans thinking the AVRG person can use Mac etc
Windows is far more straightforward
@@madyottoyotto3055 I had to use a guide when first using bootcamp
@@That_One_Guy...wow both a racist and a socialist, what a combo!
When has that happed before..
@5:27 You mention to create a new profile on your computer, how would you do this if the computer isn't booting? Please help I'm not understanding how you are able to do this things on a computer that won't boot? I'm using a second computer to watch this video and can't seem to figure out how he's able to do this things on the same computer that doesn't boot?? You also mentioned to NOT create a USB drive with the boot info but to save it directly to your computer?? How is this possible if the computer is not booting up to get into any of these screens. All I did was connect a mic and now I cannot boot back up? I've tried everything and nothing works is my computer dead because of a mic?? If anybody is reading this can you please help me...:(
Thank you. Had I have seen this video 4 years earlier, My father would have not beaten me down to hell.
Relatable 🙂
He copied the Video
@@Mr_._Matt ? What
😂😂😂😂😂
@@freezinfire he copied the video
Video kinda starts here 1:54
Dude, you are such a good explainer of tech, I'm glad you moved on from the joke videos. I mean they were indeed funny, but you have the capacity to provide content that'S actually useful to many people. As a non-native speaker, I also find your accent and manner of speaking easy to understand.
In my opinion this damaged profile problem is widespread, I had reinstalled Windows 11 from scratch 2 times and anyway I have problems with Windows update, with all the sfc and dism commands that detect errors but do not solve them, Windows 11 slow in everything except in games and more but i used to connect the same microsoft profile all the time, i will try to use a new one, 80% i think this is my problem.
Pro tip when creating a local user. If you want to avoid the ridiculous "security questions". Don't set a password when creating a new user. Wait till you login to that account. Then to set a password go back to settings-> accounts->sign-in options->password
Erm.. sooo this all happened cus I deleted something with wow in its name.. and I think my pc might be alittle cooked
Thank you. This worked to correct my "Could not complete your updates" problem. It took the "The Last Resort" option in your video, but it did fix the problem without having to do a clean reinstall.
Well looks like you uploaded this video at the right time. Seemly I'm having trouble with my Windows 10 computer.
Did I just get Carlos Mencia'd
Straight up copied you lol.
man knows what he’s doing
He needs to do his own content and not steal yours Nico
There are only 2 ultimate solutions : reinstall Windows *or* install Linux ! 😁
I've been having blues screen of deaths a lot recently..it's usually either CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED or KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR.
I've tried almost everything, i even tried changing the mother board, storage, processer and nothing seemed to work.
I can really use some help on this. Thank you .
did you fix it yet
My problem is in Windows Security app.. That "Standard hardware security not supported" thing And i tried so many things even resetting windows with keeping personal files but sadly my problem still exists.. Please help me fix this bro. I tried to fix BIOS Settings also. 🥺😢
Believe it or not, using God Mode from an earlier post of yours solved (so far!) an issue I was experiencing where my PC would just shut down exactly 30 minutes after start-up. It was annoying as that I would fix it, then it would go back to shutting down again. I am glad you have the heart of a teacher...Great post!
@world away You are correct. It did turn out to be a hardware issue. I replaced the motherboard, and that solved the problem. It was an issue with the mobo bios...
I had a boot problem not too long ago where all of these options failed so solve the issue. What ended up solving it for me was by taking a look at the system partitions in DISKPART. The boot partition was showing “raw” instead of “fat32” for the file system. Using a usb with the windows recovery environment, I was able to format that partition back to fat32, assign it a drive letter, and using bcdboot, rebuilt the EFI boot partition back onto it. Hope this helps someone.
Thank you. A whole lot of my windows system apps (e.g. get help, microsoft store, etc.) were not working and I thought some very very hidden system files got corrupted after a freeze-up and force reboot during windows update. Turn out to be a corrupted user profile. This saved me a lot a lot a lot of time.
cmd doesnt even run neither does powershell
PRO TIP: If you see the progress bar has stopped, you may have clicked on the CMD window and stopped it rendering. It will continue running, and to see the progress just press ESC to stop selecting and unfreeze the window.
thank you lol
Should’ve said at the beginning that you couldn’t fix non-boot issues.
I've been struggling with an update that fails EVERY DAY. The reinstall windows process at 6:40 worked like a charm! It also updated me from 21H1 to 21H2. Thanks Joe!
What error did u get when trying to update?
@@tomschannel27 what problem did u have
@@tomschannel27 ohh I have the same problem but nothing works
@@stealth-bh9ep Try the repair upgrade, it's the only thing that fixed my failed Windows updates. Absolutely nothing else worked and I was trying to fix it for months to no avail.
Same issue with windows update (mine: 0x80071160 error on KB500821) and it was solved! sfc could not fix corrupted files it had found and DISM gave an error 4448. The Win 10 reinstall process (with an ISO) did the trick. No more issues with sfc and DISM after. Big thnx to ThioJoe.
Finally I can fix without reinstalling
If this doesn't work with my windows 11 error code 0xc0000e i will gladly switch to nobara Linux distro.
I'm so tired dealing with this blue screen problems with windows.
PC specs:
Os: Atlas modified version of windows 11 for better optimization
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600g
Ddr4: 2x8: 16 gigs of ram Hyper x 2400 mhz
Am4: Motherboard: Asus prime A320M-K bios updated to the lastest version
PSU: rave 500 watt's 80 plus white
120 gigabyte SSD
1 terabyte m.2 SSD
1 terabyte HDD
with the assistance of MS support i was able to fix corruption on around 15 servers running server 2008 and/or 2012. the process was the painstaking one you had to follow, retrieving good copies of the cabs from other computers, windows iso's or downloading the specific versions of KBs that came with them. In some cases Microsoft had to provide some of the KBs as they are no longer available to the public. These older operating systems are harder to fix as the build info is not documented (words of the ms tech). server 2019 and windows 10 now has this info published so tracking down the required updates is alot quicker.
The corruption issues i faces were due to either machines being rebooted whilst an update was installing or the machine rebooting with pending patches whilst the C drive was completly full (never reboot with a full disk).
Looks like I am on the same boat, my sfc doesn't work, I dont have another pc/laptop from which i can copy the winsxs folder. My winsxs folder is corrupted
You should also go over fixing an installation that wont boot. Like using WinPE to rebuild the BCD file or fixing MBR. Windows installation media also has a repair/ recovery tool, when you boot from it. It is in the bottom left corner on the language/ keyboard selection screen.
There is an app to fix the MBR?
I had to do that once and did it manually through console commands. Took me a whole weekend.
@@Ballissle an app wouldn't help if you can't boot. Is it for WinPE?
@@OstenTV_DK I was referring to WinPE
I don't know what it is. But I meant I wish I knew about that as it may have helped. Whereas I did a super manual route of recovery.
@@Ballissle it is a Microsoft tool that you can boot from. It is like the windows installation except it only has basic tools. You can also use the windows installation and press shift +F10 to get to CMD. The bootrec command is very useful to fix that kind of issues.
@@OstenTV_DK thank you a ton for making me aware of this tool
There are a lot of unmentioned steps to be taken before a reinstall. The average PC user should run troubleshooting or the specific FixIt to correctly diagnose/fix their issue. Use the tools available to you if you aren’t a “guru”. Also, if you suspect it’s a profile issue, make sure you’re not logging into a temp profile.
Troubleshooting or your fixit doesn't solve the problem, it just creates an illusion that it fixed but it's not...
@@sauliusjance6300 that’s sometimes the case, but for someone that knows nothing about Windows, it’s a step.
Been doing those repairs on command prompt except the installation upgrades on bsod problems, and mostly they didn't work (sometimes the chkdsk /f does some repairs that works), so I usually ended up, backing files, and reformat or reinstall again the Windows, which I find much easier that trying to fix the BSODs..
After a crappy MS update last year, which corrupted my image files and required a rollback, I said screw it. I turned off all updates via registry, except Defender. Stopped updating everything. My life is so much easier now!
I have purchased a new laptop previous month and facing problems with it such as programs were suspended, brave gets hang, vs code corrupts , etc.
Even my laptop's specs is not that low end.
Ryzen 5 4500U
8gb ram
256 GB SSD
But I couldn't get any solution and after performing the steps mentioned in your video, I can find the errors and fix them.
Thank you so much for the help.
Your videos are always helpful. ❤️
Uh... Then the solution is to only reinstall windows (and if you're thinking using an Microsoft official iso and installing using it will not ruin your product key. It will activate itself online 😎😎😎)
Nice way to flex with your not too awesome laptop. If I said my specs you will get obliterated but I ain't in mood to flex.
@@rayirth.upside-down i can make a guess 32 gigs of ram 4.5 TB SSD ryzen 9-5700x Nvidia rtx 3080-ti gaming
I have 12gigs of ram (upgraded by harvesting 4gbs of ram from my old laptop it's different MHz and i consistent but it still works for me it was originally 8gbs)
Intel core i5 comet lake
And a not bad Nvidia GeForce mx130
It's a hp 15s laptop i regret buying a laptop because at the time i bought that laptop i could have built an high performance beast for the same price but at that time i had an new system but built with 2007 specs for under 70$ at that time i thought laptops were better And i was not making content i thought I would just use it for online class and s**t
And now If i build the same pc the cost would be almost 4x higher it will 4,00,000 inr
USD:approx 4,000$!!!
And also he's not flexing his laptop he's just telling the specs so no probs 😎😎
@@techtriggr Actually you are super low, its a Ryzen 9 5950X, 128GB of ram, 8TB Chungus Sabrent nvme drive, 16TB Seagate disk, Dual RTX 3090 (yea I am the one responsible for the shortages as people say). He was indeed trying to flex corruption has nothing to do with specs and if he is a coder he should know that even better!
@@techtriggr That setup costed a fortune, but I ain't gonna tell you the exact price but it was more than $10,000
Do u have any tutorial to fix someone's stupidity? I accidentally messed up WindowsApps permitions and now my computer doesn't even go to the login page. It just hangs in a black screen with the mouse after booting.
I tried icacls but it gives acess denied for 2/3 of the files, the important ones
And yes, I did it from the recovery console, cuz dats the only console I can run
Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation. (For SFC scan)
Nice job. Important information regarding Windows issues. I, like another fellow, got a DISM msg Error: 0x800f081f "source files could not be found." Will followup soon,
To avoid corruption turn off Write-caching for drives that contain the OS. If you don't then any type of crash or power failure will result in system file corruption.
This is one of those esoteric settings that not many people talk about. I have (on two occasions) lost files after a crash or cold reboot, presumably because the file was "saved" but pending its actual write to disk, meaning when I booted up the system the file seemed intact from the outside, but contained no actual data (a hex editor showed only null bytes for the entire stated length of the file).
7:13 I know you can do that, But will the UEFI Screen Resolution and The OEM Logo And Apps Be there? (My OEM is Dell) Its because than than they will find out I reinstalled windows Using a ISO.
Thank you! I was struggling to figure out what was wrong with my PC for weeks and I was so sure it was a hardware fault (random freezes and very bad performance and stuttering constantly) using the windows ISO to reinstall windows + keeping my files and apps worked PERFECTLY and everything feels back to it's good old self! 👍👍
I had that same error too it was such a pain to fix
This video put an end to months of pain and stress. My PC literally boots up in less than a minute. Subscribed. Thanks.
My Linux machine boots in 7 sec.
@@simonzinc-trumpetharris852 using linux takes more time tho 🥴
@@simonzinc-trumpetharris852 5 Sec and Less...
Sir you dont know the beginning of it. Recently I found a windows optimizing prodigy named Khorvie Tech he has a really keen sense with computers and made my 8 year old x99 motherboard work really fast, cpu automatically went to constant 3.7ghz (xeon i7 6900-k LOL) the base ghz is 2.4-2.5 before I messed around and my total boot time into unsupported win 11 on old hardware is less than 15 seconds. I do have a 3090 but it is ddr4 at only 3300mhz which I believe is the max stable megahertz or close to it for ddr4.
Edit: I left out the best part. Nothing is overclocked besides the ram with a very cool temp which is why I daily'd it. The boost on the CPU maxes at 3800mhz or 3.8Ghz using intel turbo boost and a few youtubers have gotten it to 4.0-4.1ghz. Apparently it seems when you remove windows OS bloat it allows the hardware to communicate easier or at the very least quicker.
Here's what I do to fix any Windows issue: Rollback to a previous Acronis backup. I'll go all the way back to a "base" install (with just the necessary program installed and set up), if need be, and then I'll just retrieve the documents and such from a later backup. Games will remain untouched, as they're on another SSD.
Easy.
This video is GOLD!!
I saved it in case I need it.
Thanks mr. Thio :D
Mr ThioJoe is cool
@@VedantTech7 yes he is
He answers all the questions that goes in my head.
ThioJoe gave me all computer info and it's in my head forever
What is you have just got the blue screen of death ?
If you run the installer from a USB or DVD, you will get the same installation options as "mount". That's the way it has been working for me anyhow. Just an FYI, there is a registry addition that can be installed called "Take Ownership". This will take ownership of any files or folders you want it to, with a right click.
What do i do when there's nothing in the boot menu
Brilliant most of which I do, but you have given some extras and collated it all in one place for us to use, Huge thanks Joe
thanks so much for this, i contacted multiple microsoft agents but no one could solve this, they said to reinstall, but you fixed it, microsoft is trash! I've had this problem for like a month and half, I wish i saw this video earlier.
Great informative video!
Would be also great if you could do part 2, where you would use mentioned chkdsk, bootrec, bcdedit, diskpart and similiar.
Also, something related with repairing Windows boot partition or boot in general (I know there are plenty of videos, but yours are pretty enjoyable!)
Thanks for the video!
Btw my laptop sometimes show black screen after the logo of the manufacturer or sometimes have a bsod device power state failure idk if it's windows corruption or something else and idk how to fix it. Can someone help?
You should outline the other parameters of SFC and or Sscannow. There are a number of different commands that can be run that go beyond the basics that you mentioned! As a tip if you enter SFC /RUNNOW a list of optional commands will display that show you what I am talking about.
Don't use SFC /RUNNOW to see the commands-. That is because /Runnow is not a valid parameter, so it will show you them, but it is not the proper way to. Use SFC /? for help.
so like my pc shut down durig an update and we had to reinstall windows so if somethingh like this happens again how will i open cmd??
will i have to put in the usb and tyoe some shortcut keys to oepn it??
and when its done i will just have to restart windows???
pls answer my questions huge respect
and my pc which powered off bcs of power outage during an update.and later and it was stuck at the recovery screen so this also happened bcs of file coruption right???
Thank you for an easy to follow tutorial. It gave me enough confidence to jump in and fix some long standing issues.
Did it work
What do I do if it sfc scan says windows resource protection could not preform the requested operation
Having same issue
One other possibility if all else fails: restore a system drive backup made when everything was running as it should. If that doesn't work, start suspecting a hardware problem. Since I do fresh backups often and keep the last 5, that's something I might try before I did a repair install.
Let's face it, most people do not bother with backups. If you ask if they've mad a backup they will glare at you as if you were speaking Silbo Gomero. Even if they have made one, they wouldn't know what to do with it. People just want the system to work and do the the things they want without all the hassle.
When a Windows Update hosed my system restoring from a system drive backup saved me many hours of having to reinstall Windows and 3rd party software.
@@telebubba5527 True my main C drive is a 4TB nvme with 3.1 filled up, Where should I copy that metric shit ton of data I mean yes I have a nas and yea I have unlimited google drive but it really gets impractical
yes. this is one of those times, being entirely online, doesn't actually help. at least with cd/dvd's you were sure, you had a good copy, if you bought it legitimately.
Even after a year that this video is out this man is still saving computers like mine
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How do you do the repair install if you can't get into windows in the first place (account locked out after reboot). . You said you can only keep programs and files if you do this t from within Windows. Why can't you use the usb method since most times you need to do this repair process when you can't get into windows hence why your stuck.!!??
When I first watched this video I was in an absolute panic. I thought I lost my 4+ years worth of files , videos, shenanigans & creations that I've made and collected over time . I was absolutely devastated when I saw how screwed I thought I was.
I still remember this video and I came back to say thank you for even posting this. I'm for sure going to back everything up twice onto separate SSDs if I have to.
Yo did you save your stuff?
@@ericonion3561 we will never know
@@ericonion3561..."i thought I was".. which implies that they did fix it :)
Hey man I was wondering can this video help me to fix my corrupted display driver file ffmpeg.dll?
Maybe update or rool back display driver might fix
I would be interested in learning more about how these files and settings get 'corrupted' since actual literal file corruption on the HDD or SDD is far less common than is used to be.
If you crank the CPU voltage up too much when you overclock it can cause it to not function 100% correctly. Thus as files are being written and read constantly it would be easy for one or two to become corrupt.
@@theHardwareBench That's not always the case lol... corruption of windows begins if your cpu or especially your ram overclock is beyond unstable and you continue to run windows like that for weeks. It will slowly start to corrupt everything within windows to the point that it becomes unusable over time in which you need to completely reinstall it fresh.
@@Bazo712 Exactly what I said, same thing with the CPU especially if the cache is overclocked or the motherboard VRM's can't take it.
i have been trying for hours and nothing has really worked as the windows media creation tool was at the "Makeing sure youre ready to install" for about 3 hours so i closed it down, my problem is multiple things such as Microsoft store, Xbox App and Xbox Game Bar not loading. Also some buttons on the taskbar dont work and i randomly got signed out of onedrive and cant log back in even after installing it 3 times, then my Settings App doesn't open and right clicking on applications doesnt pop anything up, there is also another problem were the Windows Key does nothing or neither does the Search Bar. This all started happening after i turn my PC off and turned the power off to it because off bluetooth having a slight problem, then when i booted the PC back up i saw that i couldnt open the Xbox Game Bar or my Files Explorer then finding out that i got logged out of onedrive. I don't know what to do since i have watched loads of videos and none of them helped. if there is any way to fix this without making a new user since i cannot open my Settings App please let me know.
nevermind i went to sleep, woke up and everything is working fine now, strange but if it works then i dont mind
Thank you ThioJoe! The "Last Resort Repair Upgrade" method fixed my "broken component store" issue. No amount of dism commands or SFC commands could fix Windows. After the installation, SFC and dism came up clean! Perfect! Cheers!
My laptop screen is keep flickering and suddenly screen goes black
I have tired reseting pc
I didn't helped at all
Can anyone suggest possible solution
that's likely not a software problem
This is Copied from Nico knows tech man :(
See i had a problem when i used a program called stopupdates to stop the updates and i disabled and enabled it so microsoft apps got corrupted and cannot open and i tried to fix them a lot and didn't work
To,
Theo Joe,
Sir, can we use Windows System Restore Point Feature to sove these problems/issues that you've mentioned in this video?
As we all know that, The Windows OS related problems/issues actually don't have any end to it, they keep come, each time with unbelievably completely unknown territory.
So, can we fix such issues by using Deepfreez or System Restore Point??
Like the movie Mission Impossible, day that passes I find problems, more problems, in video, bluetooh, hard drives, the worst error in that devices do not migrate, ambiguity, updates are terrifying, they ruin almost everything, full errors perlib, dcom, Sometimes I just give up, I'm tired of restoring, SUMMARY WHAT A HORROR OPERATING SYSTEM, OF COURSE THE 11 IS THE CHAMPION, I forgot that in most cases of corruption, the sfc and dism commands are useless, and users are fed up that this is the only solution for the incompetent Microsoft
My one crashed and corrupted so i re installed it showed can't load windows already running, so installed on other drives now which is not the corrupted one
sfc /scannow solved the problem in my case. Thank you!
what should i do if it doesn’t say 21H2. Because the download i did says W11
i am on windows 11 so i downloaded when does 11 version
Im stuck in a blue screen when installing windows media creation tool can you help me?
Excellent tutorial. Very helpful. Thank you.
I’ve been having issues installing updates, when I go to restart my pc to update it would reach about 30% and reboot, after rebooting it would eventually reach 99% and say - something didn’t go as planned undoing changes, and it would restart and repeat this twice, eventually booting to windows. So I’m stuck in a loop where there’s a bunch of updates that need to install but can’t.
Im hoping reinstalling windows fixes the issue
Great info here.😊 Super ad for Microcenter. Dell has been my favorite machine for many years, and that's coming from a technician. Personally I have never had to reinstall Windows on any machine, customers or mine, I've always fixed them. That's over 25 years of teching.
Microcenter will now build your PC if you specify the components (back in the day I built my own but don't have the time anymore) and I've heard from another RUclips channel that Dell's quality, except for their business Opticon series, has gone downhill.... I'm posting this from a refurbished Dell laptop that other than the occasional BSOD from an apparent battery issue works fine, and cost $100. 25 years and never a clean reinstall? That's impressive.
never reinstalled windows? You may not know windows 10 only takes 15-20 minutes to reinstall from bare metal. maybe an hour to get a regular business system configured. If you are spending more then an hour smacking your head into a weird issue. just cut your pride loss and reinstall. Don't waste your life tracking issues that are unlikely to ever occur again.
@@onthespottech5256 True but what if you have 1000 business computers? Is there a script to install Windows on 1k machines, and somehow download the User/Documents data from the cloud and finish all 1000 PCs in an hour? If so, Microsoft would be happy to advertise that.
my pc is so screwed no repair options, not even recovery drives work :0
I having my windows update since years ago, finally solved the problem after viewed your video
*looks at my windows 11 laptop in a strange way*
my mind: do you wanna do it
me: no
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Something on the kernel was corrupted an my pc wouldn't boot and startup recovery couldnt fix it
So i went on the advanced settings of repair openned cmd and ran
sfc /scannow
Instantly found corrupted files and fixed it
Do a video on working with the registry. All the stuff you suggested came out clean. The problem is in a registry setting. I am clueless on how to find what in the registry controls the issue I have. The computer nerds repair service was also clueless and still charged me $75 for the service call. :(
i am absolutely cooked.
Step 1: Install Linux.
And you're done!
all this assumes windows actually starts - what can rescue it when it will not boot?
You saved me 100s of dollars. I accidentally wiped windows 10 and could not get my old pc to boot. Thanks for the video!
If I run SFC /scan now and it says “windows resource Protection could not perform the requested operation” is this another way of it saying “could not start the repair service?”
Also I tried C:Windows\logs\CBS\CBS.log and it says “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process” please help if you can
@@l4k3y28 did u fix it?
@@mac4408 yh i unplugged one of my hardrives and it suddenly started working again must be something wrong with the hardrive lol
Hi Mr. ThioJoe.... You"r Imformation is Need Full And Usefull but...after entering commands like DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth, i Hit Enter It"s Saying 740 Error Eleveted permissions are required run DISM. Then What i DO? PLease Help me
the windows setup is saying it has trouble determining if this pc can run windows 10, even though I AM running windows 10 (my issue is that settings crash whenever i open it, windows search doesn't work, and everything opens horrifically slow)
Why isn't this pair of commands in some kind of "Repair Wizard", sigh?
Make it smart enough to include the reboots. Along with a 'chkdsk', why not.