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It's "defrag your hard drive" in a new hat and even less useful
I mean, I've had some luck professionally with strange intermittent issues being resolved simply by running those commands. For intermittent issues once I get stumped I'll run the sfc/dism commands while scanning the event viewer for any other leads and about half the time I'll leave the user with a "okay monitor and let us know if the issue returns" and sometimes that's enough to get rid of the issue
True, but the fact that sfc gets thrown out as a fix to everything under the sun makes it look like your OS is a self corrupting piece of shit.
Which i know, accurate, but you shouldn't advertise