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I had a number of occasions where Windows on my work PC f-ed up. None of the times, the windows "troubleshooting" wizard was anything but a waste of time before calling IT or digging into the problem myself.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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Just been through the fire of having to clone my system to a new SSD and no, startup repair did nothing for me.
Yes, I've used it to fix multiple issues from boot issues to driver issues.
Even once? Yeah, just that once though. It was on like a dell latitude from 2010 and it wasn't a permanent solution either
If the problem can be solved by a restart of that thing's service (audio, network, etc.) then it has fixed things for me in the past.
Pretty much no other solution (especially the running old games one) has ever worked in the troubleshooter without me having to tinker with it further.
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The search service on my computer crashes from time to time and the troubleshooter gets it working again without having to reboot (I hate rebooting).
had a couple of windows 2000 pro and server recovery saves. haven't thought about it since. hrmmm
Not once as far as the Troubleshooting Wizards go.
Troubleshooter was always able to fix my network issues. (Basically just resetting it)
I think it fixed my MBR once during Win7 days.