Ultimate Guide to Fix Almost ANY Windows Corruption (Without Reinstalling)

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Commands mentioned:
• sfc /scannow
• DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

▼ Time Stamps: ▼
0:00 - Intro
1:54 - Context to Get Ready
3:04 - Repairing With the Commands
5:08 - Corrupted Windows Profiles
6:43 - The 'Last Resort' Repair Upgrade
11:00 - If Repair Upgrade Didn't Work
11:21 - Migrating From Corrupted Profile
12:33 - If There's No Apparent Cause
12:59 - Fixing Corrupted Windows Updater
15:14 - Final Useful Mentions

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[Metanis]

Mostly this is good advice however the chkdsk procedure needs to be run early in the process not later. If your storage device has file allocation errors then all those sfc and dism procedures can actually just make things worse! Open a command prompt as admin, type chkdsk c: /f and enter yes to run at next reboot and then do reboot the system. It's much better to attempt Windows repairs when you know your system drive is free from errors. PS, you could also use the /r option but that takes much longer than /f.

[quitehandsomedude]

I believe we will achieve World Peace before Windows fixes all of its bugs and issues.

[azmc]

Dude, you are such a good explainer of tech, I'm glad you moved on from the joke videos. I mean they were indeed funny, but you have the capacity to provide content that'S actually useful to many people. As a non-native speaker, I also find your accent and manner of speaking easy to understand.

[ayuhmainer]

Thank you. This worked to correct my "Could not complete your updates" problem. It took the "The Last Resort" option in your video, but it did fix the problem without having to do a clean reinstall.

[freezinfire]

Thank you. Had I have seen this video 4 years earlier, My father would have not beaten me down to hell.

[mtech]

Brilliant most of which I do, but you have given some extras and collated it all in one place for us to use, Huge thanks Joe

[fistpunder]

I know I'm late to the game, but this man allowed me to recover a lot of data I would have lost otherwise.
Good videos for people who are novice and not computer savvy.

[gwillgram]

This video put an end to months of pain and stress. My PC literally boots up in less than a minute. Subscribed. Thanks.

[yangster]

Thank you. A whole lot of my windows system apps (e.g. get help, microsoft store, etc.) were not working and I thought some very very hidden system files got corrupted after a freeze-up and force reboot during windows update. Turn out to be a corrupted user profile. This saved me a lot a lot a lot of time.

[richardoien]

Thank you for an easy to follow tutorial. It gave me enough confidence to jump in and fix some long standing issues.

[starplayer]

Thank you for this video! The "last resort" method worked, everything is now running OK! Keep up the good work! : )

[jkennan]

Very useful to know. Thanks and happy Christmas!

[patriotastronomer]

Believe it or not, using God Mode from an earlier post of yours solved (so far!) an issue I was experiencing where my PC would just shut down exactly 30 minutes after start-up. It was annoying as that I would fix it, then it would go back to shutting down again. I am glad you have the heart of a teacher...Great post!

[CoolSmek]

Thank you! I was struggling to figure out what was wrong with my PC for weeks and I was so sure it was a hardware fault (random freezes and very bad performance and stuttering constantly) using the windows ISO to reinstall windows + keeping my files and apps worked PERFECTLY and everything feels back to it's good old self! 👍👍

[nicholashernandez]

Was having issues with some SCCM deployments a while back on my legacy windows infra (non Intune/Azure)... Came across your video and saw the "Servicing Stack" updates portion.... Nowhere in my deployment and failure logs was this particular thing mentioned, but sure enough, this was the culprit... Your videos have helped me tremendously when I need a "second opinion" on things haha.

[JohnBerthoty]

I've been struggling with an update that fails EVERY DAY. The reinstall windows process at 6:40 worked like a charm! It also updated me from 21H1 to 21H2. Thanks Joe!

[cyberwolfe]

Thank you ThioJoe! The "Last Resort Repair Upgrade" method fixed my "broken component store" issue. No amount of dism commands or SFC commands could fix Windows. After the installation, SFC and dism came up clean! Perfect! Cheers!

[onthespottech]

Pro tip when creating a local user. If you want to avoid the ridiculous "security questions". Don't set a password when creating a new user. Wait till you login to that account. Then to set a password go back to settings-> accounts->sign-in options->password

[Babush]

Thanks a lot ThioJoe! I've spent so much time trying to fix my corrupted Windows without any luck but this worked like a charm!!!

[JimmyCarter]

Bless ya man!!! Got some stuff due friday your video was straight to the point and the only one that worked for me