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.
Not that I’ve ever seen. It usually means it’s time to reinstall.
It’s weird to me that we accept ‘reinstall the whole operating system’ as a fix, it’s so absurd. I’ve literally never had to do that with any other operating system.
It isn’t accepted as a fix, because it doesn’t fix the issue.
Reinstalling is done for speed. Because it is quicker to nuke something and build it back up, than to go around and fill all the cracks with concrete.
In business, it is more important the system is back up and running than to have found the fix to the issue.
This is true for every OS.
Overall ya, but I’ve done my fair share of reimage or reinstall. Either because it would be faster(biz setting, Becky in accounting gotta get payroll done ASAP) or I just don’t want the headache of it at that moment.
I moved my business off MS to Linux a few years ago, and unplanned maintenance just… stopped being a thing. It was surreal. I expected something to not work or require lots of expert configuration, but nope. Most people here already use cloud applications for work anyway.
Never thought I’d see the day! I did make a whole bunch of HD images just in case though :D