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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The HP help and troubleshooting software did better than the Microsoft one.

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Troubleshooting has never been useful, and I think that was new-ish in XP. Startup repair (and chkdsk) have genuinely been useful.

[–] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It used to fix WiFi issues for me back on Windows Vista (bleh). Vista would always have issues when I woke my laptop from sleep mode, and my WiFi would be disconnected and unable to reconnect/properly turn off. Running the troubleshooter would restart my wireless card. Other than that I haven't encountered anything it's helped, but I don't use windows too often these days.

[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Just been through the fire of having to clone my system to a new SSD and no, startup repair did nothing for me.

[–] equinox@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Even once? Yeah, just that once though. It was on like a dell latitude from 2010 and it wasn't a permanent solution either

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I've used it to fix multiple issues from boot issues to driver issues.

[–] rifugee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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).

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

had a couple of windows 2000 pro and server recovery saves. haven't thought about it since. hrmmm

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not once as far as the Troubleshooting Wizards go.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago

I think it fixed my MBR once during Win7 days.

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