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Please run sfc /scannow and try again

toast0 1y ago
Ok well, rant time. The forum stuff yeah ok. But why do I have to run the scan? Why doesn't it run automatically in the background. What happened that lead to whatever it's fixing... is the telemetry working??? I also find it amazing when the windows store manages to end up broken and need to be reinstalled... Why doesn't it fix itself? And what with all the signature verification stuff, why doesn't whatever is corrupting the files not fail the signature check. Thanks for reading my newsletter.
- qcnguy 1y ago
  Windows power users are sometimes their own worst enemy. The top cause of broken Windows Update or Windows Stores is in my experience people either running malware as part of pirating stuff (it's not zero-daying their browser), which then nukes the background services needed for Windows Store/Update to work. Or they deliberately run scripts that stop Windows updating because they find it annoying not realizing that they corrupted their system by doing so. Or they do other things that break Windows like changing the permissions on c:\Program Files\WindowsApps which is meant to be private and managed only by the OS, but power users hate that idea so they mess with it and then things break. Windows shouldn't allow itself to be reconfigured in ways that let users deliberately break it, but ultimately it's just software and can't stop users fucking with its internals if they try hard enough. On macOS things are much better. Apple transitioned to immutable system images and de-powered the root user a long time ago. They also managed to create a culture where even power users recognize that SIP is good for security and don't turn it off so there's way less of a culture of random hacks. Their security is way better as a whole so there's less malware and it's less invasive. And their OS engineers are just better so they don't tend to ship updates that botch stuff like Microsoft do. Easy example: disable the Windows license check background service, and the Security app no longer opens. There's no error message, just nothing happens at all when you click it. Why does Microsoft allow users to do this? Well the whole OS is just in maintenance mode due to tech debt bankruptcy so fixing anything has become nearly impossible, let alone the kinds of huge moves Apple has made.

Ok well, rant time. The forum stuff yeah ok. But why do I have to run the scan? Why doesn't it run automatically in the background. What happened that lead to whatever it's fixing... is the telemetry working??? I also find it amazing when the windows store manages to end up broken and need to be reinstalled... Why doesn't it fix itself? And what with all the signature verification stuff, why doesn't whatever is corrupting the files not fail the signature check. Thanks for reading my newsletter.

qcnguy 1y ago
Windows power users are sometimes their own worst enemy. The top cause of broken Windows Update or Windows Stores is in my experience people either running malware as part of pirating stuff (it's not zero-daying their browser), which then nukes the background services needed for Windows Store/Update to work. Or they deliberately run scripts that stop Windows updating because they find it annoying not realizing that they corrupted their system by doing so. Or they do other things that break Windows like changing the permissions on c:\Program Files\WindowsApps which is meant to be private and managed only by the OS, but power users hate that idea so they mess with it and then things break. Windows shouldn't allow itself to be reconfigured in ways that let users deliberately break it, but ultimately it's just software and can't stop users fucking with its internals if they try hard enough. On macOS things are much better. Apple transitioned to immutable system images and de-powered the root user a long time ago. They also managed to create a culture where even power users recognize that SIP is good for security and don't turn it off so there's way less of a culture of random hacks. Their security is way better as a whole so there's less malware and it's less invasive. And their OS engineers are just better so they don't tend to ship updates that botch stuff like Microsoft do. Easy example: disable the Windows license check background service, and the Security app no longer opens. There's no error message, just nothing happens at all when you click it. Why does Microsoft allow users to do this? Well the whole OS is just in maintenance mode due to tech debt bankruptcy so fixing anything has become nearly impossible, let alone the kinds of huge moves Apple has made.