SFC behaviour?

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Terry Pinnell

As I'm trying to track down instability in one of my programs (Memory
Map), I decided to use the XP SFC tool. I did a quick google to remind
myself of its syntax. At this page
http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
I read "The following [window] should appear to give an indication of
how long the process is taking."

But that window did not appear here. Should it? There was HD activity
telling me something was happening - but no pre or post processing
message. Using TM during the activity I couldn't see an SFC.EXE entry
either. Judging from the CPU %, it seems the executable was
Winlogon.exe?

Is that page above inaccurate/out of date please?
 
Did you read the whole article and see if this applies:

#7

When you run scannow at logon you do not get a progress bar... This can
easily be remedied by adding a new DWORD: SFCShowProgress to the registry
key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

the values available are: 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled
 
"Admiral Q"
Did you read the whole article and see if this applies:

#7

When you run scannow at logon you do not get a progress bar... This can
easily be remedied by adding a new DWORD: SFCShowProgress to the registry
key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

the values available are: 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled
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Great, thank you. My hasty scan of the page was clearly *too* hasty!
 
| As I'm trying to track down instability in one of my programs (Memory
| Map), I decided to use the XP SFC tool. I did a quick google to remind
| myself of its syntax. At this page
| http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
| I read "The following [window] should appear to give an indication of
| how long the process is taking."
|
| But that window did not appear here. Should it? There was HD activity
| telling me something was happening - but no pre or post processing
| message. Using TM during the activity I couldn't see an SFC.EXE entry
| either. Judging from the CPU %, it seems the executable was
| Winlogon.exe?
|
| Is that page above inaccurate/out of date please?
|
| --
| Terry, West Sussex, UK

Why would you use the XP SFC tool to track down instability in a third party program? It's specific to Windows.

"System File Checker gives an administrator the ability to scan all protected files to verify their versions. If System File Checker discovers that a protected file has been overwritten, it retrieves the correct version of the file from the cache folder (%Systemroot%\System32\Dllcache) or the Windows installation source files, and then replaces the incorrect file."
 
Touch Base said:
| As I'm trying to track down instability in one of my programs (Memory
| Map), I decided to use the XP SFC tool. I did a quick google to remind
| myself of its syntax. At this page
| http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
| I read "The following [window] should appear to give an indication of
| how long the process is taking."
|
| But that window did not appear here. Should it? There was HD activity
| telling me something was happening - but no pre or post processing
| message. Using TM during the activity I couldn't see an SFC.EXE entry
| either. Judging from the CPU %, it seems the executable was
| Winlogon.exe?
|
| Is that page above inaccurate/out of date please?
|
| --
| Terry, West Sussex, UK

Why would you use the XP SFC tool to track down instability in a third party program? It's specific to Windows.

"System File Checker gives an administrator the ability to scan all protected files to verify their versions. If System File Checker discovers that a protected file has been overwritten, it retrieves the correct version of the file from the cache folder (%Systemroot%\System32\Dllcache) or the Windows installation source files, and then replaces the incorrect file."
Click to expand...

Eh? Are you serious? Hundreds of 'third party programs' use shared
DLLs.
 
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