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Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yeah, basically that. I'm back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It's not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I've encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?

ETA: I've learned from reading the responses that the Windows troubleshooters primarily look for missing or broken drivers, and sometimes fix things just by restarting a service, so they're useful if you have troublesome hardware.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Windows's ability to troubleshoot itself or at least point you in the direction of a solution is non-existent. One reason I switch to Linux fully.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You mean "something went wrong :(" is insufficient?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I know, right? It's 2023. They should really provide a QR code or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, just spent the better part of half a day helping a friend troubleshoot his PC because it kept crashing when trying to game.

BSOD was useless, dug in logs to find the errorcode. Error code was some generic Nvidia driver had an oopsie daisy, all it confirmed was that it was a software issue. Spent next 3 hours finding and reinstalling drivers until finally reinstalling the chipset drivers seems to have resolved it.

[–] Honytawk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you want more info, you just open up the Event Viewer.

It really isn't that difficult.

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

As mentioned in another comment, event viewer didn't get me much more than "Nvidia Driver crapped out", searching the bugcheck code lead to "heres several things that might fix it". In no way did it suggest that reinstalling the chipset drivers would resolve the issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But they could just put the actual event on the huge fucking screen instead of a worthless message with a frowny face. Or if not a page with instructions to access the event viewer so that inexperienced users know where to begin. Literally anything would be better than the current screen.

[–] Honytawk 1 points 1 year ago

Say you have no knowledge about Windows without saying you have no knowledge about Windows...

Do you see all the comments on this post telling you it fixed their issues? Because I do.