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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How did that become such a popular recommendation?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Windows reps on the main support site replied with SFC /scannow to basically any topic they didn't know how to fix.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does actually occasionally really fix some shit though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you can't open a Windows critical app like start or options or the task bar it's usually the answer. On very rare occasion it can help with peripherals, but it should always be accompanied by system updates and dism

[–] Fiivemacs 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ctrl+shift+ESC

Kill explorer.exe

Run explorer.exe

Desktops back

[–] rab 5 points 2 years ago

Well wrong clock causes all kinds of problems. As a system administrator it is one of the first things to check. Computers love to be in sync

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

LLMs probably amalgamating and spewing common elements of real articles for multiple titles.