This New Windows Feature Fixes (Almost) Any OS Corruption

[@ThioJoe]

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[@KryzysX]

Can you make more of those AI talking to AI in a podcast videos?

[@ZsolTuber]

Aura doesn't work outside the USA 😞

[@archived.channel-04t]

(probably biased) Fact: Aura SUCKS and the people who think it's good are held at gunpoint to say so.

[@archived.channel-04t]

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[@mrdrummer2564]

Doesn't fix corrupt politicians though. Shame.

[@icecreamjunkie6790]

Dang

[@josmarlangner]

Haha, POTUS will be reinstalled tomorrow w/o being fixed.

[@KryzysX]

Fixing them would be impossible

[@danf2]

POTUS corruption repair happened this November

[@markusTegelane]

damn, I really thought we could fix Russian government with this option

[@kio2gamer]

This is really a banger feature but one thing, it still has the potential to show you the infamous "doesnt meet your pc requirements" one

[@duplicake4054]

For anyone who doesn't know: This isn't available for any of the Windows government editions.

[@nrv_dmg]

23H2 "This option is currently unavailable" Great

[@SoundJudgment]

Another worthless 'Microsoft' solution. Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeext........

[@shreyasdharashivkar8027]

Move on to AtlasOs

[@nenume00]

lol . probably it will be implemented later but i hope it will actually be more useful than the regular windows forum answer " have you tried sfc scannow and dism repair ?"

[@Lebon19]

Same here... But I think that if you have policies in place, it might not work beause of that. Don't quote me on that though.

[@FlameMast]

same, but i was on 22h2 when i was having issues. had to manually reset my installation using media creation tool, ffs

[@icecreamjunkie6790]

As an IT help desk guy how did I not know about this 😭

[@volvo09]

Hope it helps at some point... I always hate having to "give up" and reinstall windows for weird issues.

[@ALEXANDERdk007]

@@volvo09 It used to be done by downloading the ISO and running the installer and then choosing to keep all files and apps, tho it's nice to have it as a feature in Windows

[@GeekIWG]

Same! It's crazy how often I come across corrupted Windows installs

[@SteelSkin667]

I found about this recently when I trying to fix a borked installation of 24H2, and I was impressed as well. It's a lot quicker and less destructive than the other repair methods Windows provides.

[@josepharvello4886]

Meanwhile, I just tried this myself and Windows rolled back the repair.

[@gdmastermonkey]

Literally, right now, I'm trying to fix my Windows partition not booting bc of a faulty update. Perfect timing lol

[@TheSimArchitect]

So, after more than two decades, they released something like this. Yay?

[@garuna5688]

But if the OS is corrupted, how will you boot into windows and access this option?

[@TechHowden]

This is meant for smaller issues where the OS still boots but certain things may not work correctly.

[@GeekIWG]

As an IT technician, I can tell you that this feature will be incredibly useful for me. It's ridiculous how often I've come across corrupted Windows installs.

[@lancecox8084]

Same here, I have come across so many "people" who just shut off their computers from the Computer off switch, instead of a proper windows shutdown and then wonder how the OS got corrupted.

[@YO-BIZZY]

@@lancecox8084I mean if it shows the shutting down screen there’s no issue. Power buttons shouldn’t cut power but tell the OS to shutdown anyway

[@GeekIWG]

@@lancecox8084 Indeed. I really don't get why people do that. They think "oh, I can just hold down the power button to make it shut down quicker" not realizing why it takes a while to shut down in the first place.

[@varshatripathi7998]

ThioJoe, I am a member now!

[@lePuru]

Lol, I'm glad you're enjoying your perks :)

[@_SJ]

Congratulations

[@FirstnameLastname_official]

This fixed my marriage. Thanks, Microsoft.

[@jamba_d2225]

I did a lot of repair installs on Windows XP, but after that version, Microsoft made it difficult to do.

[@soragranda]

Venezuela needs this update.

[@icecreamjunkie6790]

True

[@DiogoLZ]

Brazil needs it too.

[@bilalsadiq1450]

If only Chavez was back.

[@archived.channel-04t]

aren't windows updates global?

[@tdrg_]

@@archived.channel-04t it’s a joke about Venezuela’s contested election and Maduro’s rule

[@4zims]

I am still waiting for a proper bug fix of the windows update cleanup bug in 24H2.

[@Freddisred]

Getting tired of having to boot the computer twice because it fails to update every day.

[@soulaesthete8563]

This is a great feature I didn't know about. Thanks so much, ThioJoe!

[@Darkosa1234]

Thanks for the info, Joe! I didn't know about that feature and I'll definitely will keep it in mind now

[@bigfoot650]

I used to work in a computer repair shop in the late 90s/early 00s, and we would do this to repair Windows 98/XP systems all the time. Just had to insert the Windows CD and reinstall over the top of the existing OS. Fixed loads of systems doing this.

[@jodybingo]

If you installed windows using Rufus to get by the TPM stuff, this option of reinstalling doesn’t work

[@volvo09]

Same with CPU req bypass?

[@diverm2371]

This would have been good to mention

[@cam_934]

Inplace upgrades have been around since Windows introduced Feature Updates as that is the same but automated. The problem with In Place Upgrade and this newer Recovery solution is that they require a functional/bootable Windows OS. Otherwise you are outside the OS and keeping your data and apps isn't an option if you have to reinstall the OS.

[@rostbif]

It's the situations where the Windows OS is not starting that are the toughest to overcome without resorting to a destructive reinstall. When MS comes up with a capable util to help fix things in that situation I'll be very impressed.

[@StrokeMahEgo]

Try it with the government

[@icecreamjunkie6790]

Would be nice

[@SADXGamer4]

LOL

[@Eternal_Tech]

At least in the U.S., there will be a partial reinstallation of the federal government on January 20. Hopefully, this version will prove to be more effective than the last one.

[@dave_n8pu]

Wasn't aware of this option, thanks for sharing it.

[@Tobim6]

We need something like this for a Windows installation that doesn't boot...

[@Permafry42108]

The biggest issue this has for someone like me is it will likely remove any anti spyware fixed that Shutup10 and similar software can do. this means any time we would want to use this feature we'd have to redo all the settings and changes that remove spying since this likely will reactivate them;

[@swagnemite-dl3sz]

Yeah, just like feature updates and in-place-upgrade this will reset some of the settings and modifications you made to your install. At least with ShutUp10 they save your settings to a file so next time you open it it will tell you which settings changed and if you want to revert them.

[@nenume00]

you can presave your config, at least with Autoruns and Ooshutup, and run them after . there is also winutil by Chris Titus

[@lePuru]

Yeah but this way you don't need to reinstall everything else?

[@swagnemite-dl3sz]

@@lePuru You don't have to do that with an in-place-upgrade either but I guess this is slightly easier.

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

The feature I've been hoping for is PC motherboards having the ability to download Windows directly from the internet, like Macs can for MacOS. That'd be awesome for repair.

[@redgamer821]

This is actually great!

[@CultivatorCaier]

Thanks thio!

[@c0t0d0s7]

“Scary Hacker Man in Dark Lair” would make a great name for a band.

[@cjc363636]

Screemo vocals: "I'MTHESCARYHACKERMANLOOKINGATYOURLIFE!!!SCARYHACKERMANSCARYHACERMAN!!!GRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

[@rmrestivo]

Just what I needed and did not know about it ... thank you :)

[@Errr717]

Just what I need. Will try it out.

[@varshatripathi7998]

Hey ThioJoe, I am thinking about joining your membership perks. How often do you post member-only videos?

[@varshatripathi7998]

I am your member now!

[@LeBeautiful]

Honestly wish this existed years ago. Godsend!

[@rogerpalsgrove9678]

Now I want to know where the registry setting for rounded edges is located.

[@pincheconejo]

That is a feature that should be there since the beginning of all time!!

[@matthewharris517]

I honestly didn't know about this, usually I just backup my OS on an extra drive on my PC just incase I need to reinstall I'll still keep and update my OS backup but from now on I'll use this recovery as my first choice

[@jhonatanjhs]

This is really good to know! It's something you probably never gonna need it, until you do.

[@MichaelToub]

Great video, thanks!

[@gerishera1304]

Have seen but didn't know about it thnkx thio

[@annettesurfer]

I discovered the Nvidia app was the culprit behind my pc completely freezing several times a day whenever I watched a couple YT videos at the same time (one w/CC on) It didn’t happen all the time but seemed to get progressively worse. The sound still played, but everything including the mouse was frozen until I typed ctrl/alt/del and then hit cancel. I had already ruled out the RAM, NVMe, GPU, and OS. I even started using another PC but the freezing problem followed me, plus I noticed a huge lag while scrolling through the YT “watch later” list. Eventually I stumbled upon a YT video of someone complaining about the Nvideo app reducing FPS in games and suggested going back to GeForce Experience. On a hunch I deleted the app, updated the game driver, and the freezing problem went away. I hope that helps somebody someday.

[@AngelaAmaryllis]

I wish this was for windows 10. I keep having this stupid recurrent issue of the right click menu appearing unexpectedly and repeatedly and I can't seem to find a fix to make it go away. Sometimes it also opens a code panel (inspect element, perhaps). I've tried the usual suggestions already, and am currently deciding if I should try reporting it as a bug or just try reinstalling the operating system. Did dism, sfc, hardware diagnostic, reinstall of mouse, touchpad, usb drivers. I've even replaced the mouse itself. This thing is annoying and kind of feels like malware, but scan finds nothing.

[@ALEXANDERdk007]

You can do it the old way, just like Windows support used to do, and download the ISO file, then use that to reinstall windows, as standard it will be set to keep all files and apps

[@narfharder]

The context key (which for some reason is missing on many keyboards) will open the right-click menu in many apps. Anyway try also replacing the keyboard just for giggles, before you nuke and pave.

[@UserAccount-ThisOne]

they arent adding it to windows 10 because it gives people one less of a reason to hop on their stupid AI infested spyware nonsense operating system they call windows 11... seriously how delusional has microsoft become over the past couple years..? i know they were always known for making stupid decisions but this is alot even for their standards.

[@lePuru]

​@@narfharderthat's smart

[@robloxfan4271]

might come in handy one day, thanks!

[@HeckerGamerHere]

I once installed a virus I made myself (which I ran on virtualbox) and I DONT KNOW HOW BUT IT LEAKED OUT ONTO MY ACTUAL PC (luckily it didn’t go to the boot sector) but I couldn’t even access safe mode after that sooooo that was the scariest time of my life

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

Doesn't fix the bad design choices of Windows 11 sadly

[@definitelyaraven]

WE'RE SOOOO BACK!

[@DhavalBrahmbhatt2627]

Hey Thio, thanks for the video, really useful and I didn't know it was even there. Would it make sense to do this on a regular basis as a sort of regular maintenance type thing? Or is it a bit of an overkill?

[@felipedeoliveira6300]

Plot twist; it always could've fixed everything, but now it wants u to update to 11

[@ShayneHartford]

You're telling me they finally made a button to use DISM, that's existed since the beginning of Windows 10?

[@rezejxd2234]

All politics needs this update :D

[@Aaptronym]

Actually a good addition to windows for once; great. I work in IT and this is genuinely welcomed.

[@aaronwetzel9702]

This makes me miss your epic troll videos which were amazing.

[@GehMemories]

ooooh... this function is cool... thanks for the info

[@QwDragon]

If it really works like that, I was waiting it for years!

[@donhurst8459]

will this work on win 3.14?

[@UnpredictableChaos]

Every single Easter egg in one video please 🙏

[@sleepingiv]

Cumulative updates often get stuck for a long time while downloading while if I manually download them from the Microsoft Update Catalogue website using the KB number , it downloads at blazing fast speed and installs flawlessly. By the time the manual process completes installation and reboot, the automated through the Windows Update screen barely downloaded 5 or 6 %. It downloads and installs just fine for all the other updates. How to fix this?

[@ivanlimzg]

I used it to update my canary build to the latest one(the previous build had some issues). But I wanted to go down the channels(all the way to release preview), which I can't now... (yet)

[@magaminggtk6236]

Microsoft must hire this man

[@RogerBradley-b4j]

I have used this process several times the old way and a couple of times the way it is done though Windows and It is so much easier to use. It works great. I'm glad MS did something right.

[@LarcR]

Restoring a system backup can often fix a problem easily, and it's much faster.

[@jonah1464]

Damn, i lived enough to see the "download more RAM" King giving actual useful tips to fix a broken software 🙂

[@chrislykk]

Never needed anything like this on Mac OS.

[@rami-23hrhoife]

saving this for the inevitable death of w10 playlist aka w11 troubleshooting

[@trestianb]

Ok but what do you do when you have an actual problem with Windows Update? Tried to install 23h2, got stuck for like 2 hours at 93% and it goes into "Something went wrong, uninstalling updates" for another 3 hours. Did it 3 times, same thing, took 2 days in total. And of course the troubleshooter said nothing was wrong.

[@Jimmy-bu6zb]

Thanks for this. I only wish that I had been mentioned earlier than 1min. 45sec. that it's NOT available for Windows 10....

[@themananswer-lg2wt]

What happened in my case is that one of my files was missing from Windows Update in Windows 11. Nothing happened for 4 days straight and then I get this message to run the repair upgrade (somehow the system knew this). Anyway I run that and all the files get replaced, no more issues. So if you guys have any missing files in Windows 11 Update it may prompt you just like it did me to run this repair.

[@rager-69]

God video. I'm a little disappointed you didn't install a few apps, common things like Chrome, Firefox, VLC and 7-Zip, as well as Office and/or LibreOffice. Nothing too intense, but a little proof that apps remain and work. Maybe you can do a follow-up video.

[@WindowsProtege]

Nice vid

[@q1337]

sfc + dism in cmd, the combo never fails

[@JorgeALXNDR]

sometimes it's not enough. hope this reinstall solves it all now

[@JorgeALXNDR]

This wasn't enough either. I really have to do a clean install. But it was worth trying. It really doesn't modify anything in Windows from what I've seen.

[@23names]

I JUST REINSTALLED WINDOWS 10 ISO ONTO AN OLDER LAPTOP, IT TOOK ME A FEW DAYS BECAUSE OF THE 32 GB FLASH DRIVE, I HAD TO DO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WORK, AND OF COURSE THE LAPTOP IS STILL A BIT SLOW, I AM NOT SURE WHY SOMEONE DECIDED TO PUT WINDOWS 10 ON IT, WHEN IT ORIGINALLY HAD WINDOWS 7, I CONSIDERED DOING THAT, I THOUGHT IT REALLY WOULDN'T BE WORTH IT, BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF STORAGE SPACE MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE LAPTOP BEING AN EXTREMELY UNDER PERFORMANCE LAPTOP, 1.6 Gig processor, 2 Gigs of RAM, and a 32 Gig soldered flash drive, it does perform better when I had a 512 Gig SD card as an internal secondary hard drive, except online was still slow, I removed the 512 and the only difference is the laptop performance is a little slow

[@eduardobarreto5555]

Fucking hell that's a laptop that can only run very lightweight Linux distros if it doesn't go straight into the trash.

[@1LonelyBoi]

And now to fix your shift key.

[@rostbif]

I've been in this situation. Those cloud books were such a bad idea. Believe me when I say life's too short to be wasting days on stuff like this. It's time you'll never get back. Seriously! You may have managed to get it working but it won't be able to update.

[@DroolingDrilling]

Wish I learnt about this a month ago…

[@ronbigalke4877]

I tried everything I could think of to get my system to install an update file. I tried running sfc, dism, and downloading the update via the catalog. I even cleared out the software distribution folder. Nothing worked. Finally, I downloaded the repair image, which installed properly and cleared up my missing update file. I had a problem with the Windows store and some command line commands not working on one of my other systems. I tried the repair option, but it didn't work. I ended up having to reformat the system.

[@smb1397]

omg this is just what I needed (i ran some Windows 11 debloater scripts and now ive lost functionality that i actually liked) update: it didnt work

[@Z3rgatul]

I think the biggest problem with Windows is bad written software and drivers that clutter your system. Reinstall windows but keep all software and settings in place doesn't seem to fix anything for me

[@JohnSmith-xi9nd]

While I see the feature in my recovery section in settings, mine says unavailable and this machine is on 23H2.

[@earthoid]

This feature does seem to be in Win 10 but I couldn't get it to work. It crashed out every time when it tried to create the boot media. But I was able to manually repair Windows mostly with the "sfc /scannow" command among other things. SFC found tons of issues that couldn't all be fixed at first.

[@cytiuris.2915]

It keeps your settings intact?

[@icecreamjunkie6790]

Most settings should stay the same. Some minor things may change to default.

[@RGGaming940]

peak feature ong!?

[@Aranimda]

It also quadrupled my WiFi speed for free.

[@fragalot]

i still prefer clean installs after blanking my SSD, then i can star fresh and install my apps and ignore apps i don't use anymore

[@NormalUser7392]

Him trying not to get any sponsors: idk

[@PianothShaveck]

It's been a while since I was able to update my parallels machine, it kept giving me errors while updating and couldn't update whatsoever, and the usual shell commands couldn't help. Maybe this will help instead.

[@whophd]

What is preventing Settings from having a button to do SFC and DISM?

[@anamoyeee]

If only windows didn't just break when using normally, like, i can count at least 4-5 major crashes of windows components (The whole PC or some OS program like explorer.exe) which did not happen when the installation was fresh new, but they do after a few years of usage without reinstallation

[@dark_elf_wizard]

I have been having random crashes with my computer for a very long time, but the recovery commands don't work, maybe this will work.

[@jamestakac8951]

Given Microsoft's track record. I'm a lil skeptical to say the least. As I have multiple windows versions I'd give it a go. Already had to reinstall after a power failure (a few days ago) but was much the same as the previous years. My experience is that you'll have a lot to reinstall, even if you had regular backups

[@Charlie8913]

Is this feature also in that Windows Recovery which gets launched after a few unsuccessful boots (getting a bluescreen on each boot)? Cause i had a system today that corrupted itself through of a faulty RAM module. After removing that RAM module it still bluescreened. Having an easy reinstall option there would have saved me at least an hour.

[@halikarnak1862]

Has anyone ever had a problem where your computer thinks ctrl or the windows key are held down, but it isnt? Doing ctrl alt del fixes it temporarily but it comes back randomly

[@GMFocalFossa]

I think that the square corners are only there if you are using software rendering...

[@UncleDobby]

Hey Joe, great video! I had no idea this feature was there. I just performed the 24H4 update and was left about 20GB of precious disk space on my C: drive. Tell me - is there any risk in deleting my ‘Windows.old’ folder?

[@jwiricktoo]

I had a Windows Update that kept failing (it was already installed but kept wanting to re-download for some reason) so I'm hoping this fixes that!

[@eccentricOrange]

Does this play nice with dual-booted systems? (Windows + Linux)

[@leecmh]

No, of course not!

[@AustinWithAHead]

Yeah but i dont want 24h2 and it'll try downloading that based on how microsoft is acting

[@proulxr2002]

Unfortunately this option is greyed out on my Windows 11 Pro ver. 23H2. It says "This option is currently unavailable". Any idea how to unlock it?

[@StefanMarjanov]

I tried, handy option indeed, but it didn't fix my problem with Windows Sandbox. I am still getting the "The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002)" error when I try to start the Sandbox app. But, I will keep this in mind in case of other errors :)

[@ngw8316]

Actually is a new thing, was checking some setting screen after update 24H2, and look like i never see that option before, maybe 23H2 i did not notice it

[@GogoTheSomeone]

I have a PC that has a corrupt install and it can't complete an in-place upgrade, upgrade in general and do a whole lot of other stuff

[@Sri_Harsha_Electronics_Guthik]

please push for makeing win 10 live longer

[@androidlogin3065]

Did you try to see (with 'winver') the version, before and after?