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Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once? (midwest.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Yeah, basically that. I'm back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It's not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I've encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?

ETA: I've learned from reading the responses that the Windows troubleshooters primarily look for missing or broken drivers, and sometimes fix things just by restarting a service, so they're useful if you have troublesome hardware.

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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

strangely Network Troubleshooter always helped me when I was out of ideas why the network just... stopped working

tho never said the problem, things just got fixed in the meantime while it analyzed n shit and then it reported no issues :P

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That one usually is successful by disabling your network adapter, then re-enabling it. Basically....

Have you tried turning it off then back again?

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

yeah, but if the troubleshooter does that it's somehow works, if I do each step manually what the troubleshooter does, it never works.

there's some black magic involved...

like the way how unresponding apps suddenly come back to life if I open Task Manager...

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Only Windows can unfuck that which it fucked up on its own.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

I believe the troubleshooter also does a WINSock reset as well. I'm not sure, though. I know it definitely disables/enables the adapter.

https://www.howtogeek.com/785351/how-and-why-to-perform-a-netsh-winsock-reset-on-windows/