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The Microsoft support forums are pitifully hilarious, too.
"Hi, I need help with N. I've tried X, Y, and, Z."
"Hello, sorry to hear that you're having trouble with N. Have you tried X, Y, or Z?"
"Yes."
"I'm sorry to hear that it's still not working. Please refer to this thread, and feel free to contact Microsoft Support with any future questions. Have a nice day."
"But my problem still isn't solved. Hello?"
Where one of X, Y or Z is "update your system" and "ensure you're using the latest drivers."
OK, but seriously, X, Y and Z are these:
Reboot
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
sfc /scannow
The only answers you'll get.
I've genuinely seen a post asking for help because DISM wouldn't run, where the recommended answer was to run DISM 🙈
And the other one is either use a third party registry cleaner or run this esoteric powershell command as admin.
And if it doesn't work, just reinstall your entire computer. Fuck your entire day.
"Thread closed due to inactivity."
It seems to be populated exclusively by people (or these days LLMs?) who have had MS customer interaction training, but simultaneously have no grasp of reading compression.