Well, if you're so inclined, you can re-create the NTFS extended attributes on the file you broke and things should be back to normal. However, the article is f

Well, if you're so inclined, you can re-create the NTFS extended attributes on the file you broke and things should be back to normal. However, the article is for people who clearly don't know what they're doing, or what they broke and how, so I think giving the »Have you tried turning it off and on again« advice is just about right for those folks. And even on Windows you can fix most issues in different ways than reinstalling, it's just that for some degrees of brokenness it's by far the faster solution (cf. just re-cloning a git repository instead of figuring out what is broken).