“Try doing a clean Windows install” – dude, if you got no idea, just tell me
“Try doing a clean Windows install” – dude, if you got no idea, just tell me
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A lot of “small” bugs take longer to squash than reimaging the system
In the days of internet forums it was a common advice to format C: for whatever problem. Not much has changed I guess.
Reset and set it up just the way you want.
Then create an image of your drive, right then and there.
You can then use that image to reset back to this clean, configured state (minus whatever updates have come out since then).
DISM repairs, and SFC run through CMD…
Fixes most bugs, and really only requires a restart afterwards.
in the ate 90s the famiy pc had an issue where the network drivers would often have to be reinstalled. one weekend the issue came up when I was spending the weekend at a friends house. instead of calling me, my mom called tech support. they walked her through reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling windows. I lost so much stuff from that! I never let her touch my pc when I finally built one..
I wonder when people stopped remembering that Pam (the girl impersonating IT experts in the bottom panel) is not the one comparing the two pictures. Instead, she was the one who gave the spot-the-differences test to Creed. (This is all from the US The Office)
whoa whoa whoa whoa!
Delete this!
How dare you call me out like that.
Micro$oft Windows in a nutshell
I personally think that “let’s reinstall” is synonymous with “no idea how to fix this”.
Though in most cases it does help and is sometimes faster than diagnosing the issue manually. (But where’s the fun in that?)
“…okay next step says to..”
Resetting a PC is far easier at an enterprise level than a personal level.
Most have scripts and basically the entire process automated for re-imaging a machine. Data is usually stored on a separate server, so you aren’t losing anything.
On your own PC however, program installations and data recovery (backing up and restoring) can take time. Active time.
This just shows you don’t understand tech support…
Wanna know how I know you’ve never professionally done IT where time is money?
You’re not even exaggerating about the clean windows install suggestion. One single individual game I’d purchased that I couldn’t download from one game service (Forza 7) and the only solution people had for me was “your windows is broken, you have to reinstall it” when I’ve only had the issue with one single game on one single service and everything else works fine.
It’s a windows firewall issue, trust me. Nope, Reimaged the drive.
It’s a windows firewall issue, trust me. Nope, Reimaged the drive.
The issue is that the “bug” may be able to get fixed somehow, but if troubleshooting hasn’t resolved the issue it’s easier and quicker for everyone to just reimage the PC.
If the problem is a minor annoyance and reimaging would be too much of a hassle, then just live with it.
The issue is that the “bug” may be able to get fixed somehow, but if troubleshooting hasn’t resolved the issue it’s easier and quicker for everyone to just reimage the PC.
If the problem is a minor annoyance and reimaging would be too much of a hassle, then just live with it.
The issue is that the “bug” may be able to get fixed somehow, but if troubleshooting hasn’t resolved the issue it’s easier and quicker for everyone to just reimage the PC.
If the problem is a minor annoyance and reimaging would be too much of a hassle, then just live with it.
While I agree, I have one situation in which I won’t go further down in debugging:
“Automatic Repair; your PC did not start correctly”
I probably managed to fix the thing once in the few dozens of times my/a buddy’s PC had this error. They could honestly replace the Advanced Options button with a middle finger emoji lol
Okay, that’s fair.
“I have no idea why Windows is fucking up this simple task. Now try doing a clean Windows install.”
i dont get how people can just do a clean install every time something fucks up
i have a snap of my rig its like 5 mins then fresh n clean
I company environments it’s about time efficiency, I *could* go through all of the troubleshooting and isolation steps, or I can take the computer when it’s not in use and run a mostly automated re-installer that **will** fix the issue.
When it comes to tech advice online, I get this perspective more, but without knowing all the possible system information, it gets hard to give any solid advice.
Every suggested solution that doesn’t work pisses off the user
This is ridiculous. I just pressure the infrastructure team to give them a whole new laptop.
Usually disabling fast boot and then restarting fixes most of the problems
Small bugs usually reappear with windows, it often also breaks completely, and small bugs appear at the beggining of it.
I too factory reset my PC every time a spider enters the room.
“My excel shortcut is broken”
“You’re gonna need a new motherboard”
Nothing worse than doing it and it not fixing your issue
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