Re: OT: some questions for our Apple + Parallels Users

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Hi, Jordan.


Well, it's time to be honest. (Just for a moment though.) I have run sfc
/scannow maybe 10 times across the years, and it has never found or fixed
anything.

But the son in law of my cousin's veterinarian reportedly said he had
heard tell of a pig farmer in Texas whose son solved a Windows problem by
running it.


That was good enough for me to keep trying it.


Regards,

Harry




Hi Harry,


Thought I should follow up on this, even as unfinished business.  It
turns out that this user is in the midst of a major project, and has
forbade me from doing **anything** to or with that machine until the
project is completed.  I'm thinking this could be rather optimistic,
because it assumes that old desktop rig will continue functioning
acceptably (basically, minimally) until then.  In the meantime, she
is getting by with the only means of getting stuff On or Off being via
burning to or reading from optical discs.  Nevertheless, I thank you
for adding that Windows technique to my repertoire -- such as it
is. 


While waiting for the opportunity with the aforementioned system, I
thought I would try it out on one problematic system I had at home, which
is running W7U x64.  That one has a recurrent boot failure loop,
most particularly after almost any MS update has been applied, but
sometimes even after the system has just been sitting unused for a couple
weeks.  There was some technical gobbledygook I jotted down, which
included some general codes and the word "fallover."  Not
very revealing so far, and the better known Windows repair procedures
have not been helpful either.  When I tried that  sfc
/scannow  here, it took about 10 minutes to run, and returned:
""Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity
violations."  So, in this case the mystery remains, and it is
annoying.  The only good part is that I've always been able to get
it back to booting up with "Use Last Known Good Profile,"
though one has to time that just right.  Still, I look forward to
seeing what   sfc /scannow   makes of the ports
corruption issue on the old XP rig.




 Jordan




From: Harry Binswanger


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 5:47 PM

Subject: Re: OT: some questions for our Apple + Parallels
Users



Jordan,


Sorry to be so long in replying. It's entirely self-contained. Takes 1 to
2 min to run. Probably won't fix things, but nothing to lose. the
/scannow switch tells it to replace any corrupted files (I think from its
.cab files, or whatever way it now stores system file originals).



You just go to the Run command (Winkey-R) type in sfc /scannow and hit
enter. No biggie.


Regards,

Harry


Harry,


Regarding that scan you suggested: is it entirely self-contained, or do
you need to be connected to the internet for it to function ?  Does
it take a fairly long time to run ?  (Say, on a middling Core-2 Duo,
1 GB. hard drive, 4 megs of RAM -- of which XP will only see 3.2) 



I would be trying that on my next visit . . .  presuming that it
would not tie up the machine for hours.  If that was the case, this
may have to wait for some more opportune timing.




   Jordan




From: Harry Binswanger


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:54 AM

Subject: Re: OT: some questions for our Apple + Parallels
Users



Certainly OS X vs. Win is endlessly debatable. I agree with Carl that,


unless she's already acclimated to the Apple environment, there's less of
a

learning curve in going from XP to Win 7 (probably even to Win 10) than
in

going to OS X.


But here's a new thought: why not fix her XP software? If all the ports


have failed (yet work as hardware, proven by your test) there must be
some

one point of failure. Some Googling would probably turn up the
problem.


In fact, have you tried running:


sfc /scannow


-- that alone could completely solve the port problem (ever the optimist,
I

am).


Regards,

Harry





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