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  • Re: Dell goes into unknown status

    From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Mon Nov 24 12:42:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Mon, 11/24/2025 5:16 AM, Philip Herlihy wrote:
    In article <fo47ikl0slop6b7odjsjnllkhqt3up51go@4ax.com>, NONONOmisc07 @fmguy.com says...


    It still hasn't frozen again. I think DISM fixed it. I think DISM
    doesn't get enough publicity.



    I agree. I spent years finding SFC mostly failed to complete, until I
    found out about DISM. Now I run:

    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
    .. if that asks for more attention then run again with /RestoreHealth instead, ignoring a long apparent pause about 2/3 way through.

    Then run SFC /Scannow - which remarkably often finds corrupted files and fixes them - hey!


    WinSxS ----- hardlink --> System32 filename # A projected file set
    (DISM, on (SFC, on # builds some of system32
    a repair) a repair) # contents

    You repair WinSxS first, so SFC can have good
    materials to work with, when it runs.

    As for the activities of SFC, they seem to be somewhat
    disingenuous. It was claimed in the past that "SFC
    would check a file, and replace it if it was corrupt".
    Instead, what I was seeing, seemed to be wholesale copying
    of good materials, over top of everything. The process
    did not seem to be selective back then.

    Paul
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  • From micky@NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Tue Nov 25 18:25:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on 23 Nov 2025 14:39:59 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

    micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
    In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on 22 Nov 2025 16:05:25 GMT, Frank Slootweg
    <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
    [...]
    There's also a Ctrl+Alt+Del related setting which needs you to use
    Ctrl+Alt+Del before being able to enter your password on a locked Lock
    screen, but at the moment I can not (re)find where it is.

    I don't have a password. It wasn't easy to get rid of it. Paul gave me
    the answer.

    Minor nit: You *do* have a password, it's just 'null'/empty, which
    means that you don't have to enter anything, but the rest of the
    process, i.e. getting the screen to lighten up, seeing your username,
    logging in, etc., is the same.

    Yes, of course. Thank you.

    In another thread I complained about my win11 laptop freezing, which is
    even worse than not sleeping like I expect, so I ran all the online Dell hardware checks (26 of them they say, including they say a memory stress
    test) and found nothing, ran deep scans with Win Defender and
    MalwareBtyes and found nothing, and then ran DISM and sfc /scannow, and rebooted, and not only have my freezes stopped so far, but I left the
    computer alone 3 times to time out and it slept normally, woke up to 2
    presses of the Ctrl button. I think that's proof enough that this
    thread's problem is solved

    For a long time I'd never even heard of DISM, but it seems to have
    solved two problems.

    AIUI it checks every system file and replaces bad ones. How do they get
    bad??? Is the Great American Novel I'm writing going to get bad?

    [...]
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