Easily fix broken Windows files now with System File Checker

Props for taking the simple step that most articles skip, which is telling me WHAT FILE I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR AND WHERE. It's amazing people leave out simple details like it should just be known by default.

You have no idea how many times this has saved me on everything from Server 2008R2 to Server 2019 as well as windows 8.1 installs to windows 11 build 20H2 ! Great to see this information shared with the community!

New to Windows; recently discovered sfc and dism commands. Was looking for best practices advice. DAY-UM! The man knows his stuff and connects the dots for mere mortals like me. Going to watch every single video he has. Thank you, Rich.

I'm delighted to see someone finally creating high-quality content on advanced Windows topics!

DISM, the Swiss knife of every technician.

I've been using these tools for years when ensuring stability and security after removing any malicious software or code on a system. This is great educational information for the community. Cheers for this!

Very interesting way to get sfc to actually work! Really liked your presentation style as well, very rigorous and well thought out. Also appreciated the large green overlays with the cmd line details.

Props to you for being so informative and perfectly representing everything with a clear shot of your screen and not moving too fast. Plus the explanation of background/extra info is so much more helpful. The worst is when you try to ask a question/pose an issue on windows forums and there is the same verbatim copied and pasted answer a million times which hardly ever works, or some a**hole who refuses to help b/c you "don't give enough information" as if every user know every spec of their OS and how it functions. Cheers!

I've been looking all over for how to specify a source and what the heck all the .esd and .wim stuff means, and you're the only person who explained all of this. Everybody just assumes you know what the heck they mean by “find the .esd file,” like bruh, you gotta tell me what that is. Thank you, very informative video

One time at a client's I started with sfc /scannow. It found no problems. Yet, what had been wrong was working after that. So, that one time I had an opposite problem from what you described. Thanks for putting all that stuff to one place. You were highly informative and I subscribed.

WOW!! DISM worked!! this was by far one of the greatest repair videos I have applied to my computer to date. My computer is running so much better. Thank you for all the GREAT information and it saved me $$$ with a not so smart technician.

This video couldn't be posted at a better time. Thanks!

Holy crap in the 15 years I've been doing this I swear you're the ONLY person I've seen actually do it right!! I get into so many arguments with people over this. So called "professionals", smh. I'm honestly surprised and relieved to see someone who ACTUALLY knows how to properly run an sfc scan. THANK YOU!!

Great video! I'm a Tech and I loved this. I'm 6 months in and always learning but at the Helpdesk level I've been giving myself a nudge to run the DISM commands properly when I use sfc. I get much better results that way.

Hey man! Been having panic attacks all day, and just desperate to get out of poverty but the last two days my computer kept freezing and my streams breaking down. But FINALLY things are looking up after following your tips. Absolutely love you and the WAY you teach. Everything about you is awesome and the world needs more of you. Bless your soul 🕊️

This was so helpful. I was told by a online forum to run this and had no idea why it wasnt working. thanks for clearing things up!

Very useful. I too discovered a few years ago that SFC scannow never found anything and had to delve deeper to use it effectively.

Brother I’ve been watching the damn sfc /scannow videos literally ALL DAY LONG!!!! And every single time I did the SFC it would say corrupted files were detected but not all of them could be repaired and I was at a lose till I found this video!!!! I did ALL of the DISM steps and after the last one of RestoreHealth it said it was complete so I ran the scannow command AAAAAAGAIN!! And it said ALL corrupt files were found and repaired!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH MY GUY!!

Just wanted to give you a HUGE thanks for this video. I have an older (2009) HP laptop that has tools and utilities I can't get any longer so I cannot afford to format and reinstall. It became essentially unusable as even at idle it would be running 99% CPU and 8Gb RAM at 60°C+ temps even though it was literlaly doing nothing. SFC never helped at all. No amount of looking into this gave me the answers, although I suspect I wasn't searching using correct terminology to narrow it down. I was just about to give up and accept defeat when I found this. Ran through it all last night and I am happy to report I am currently typing this out on that very laptop with 5 tabs open AND a video being recoded in the background. Literally a world of difference and a whole new machine. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was just about to reinstall Windows I swear , when I came across this masterpiece by God's grace. Even Microsoft were like-"You ain't gettin' anywhere without a fresh install"...Thanks once again dude for saving my Lappy😊😊😊