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Hi everyone so this was a post I just made on a game discussion and I thought it is very useful for everyone to know. It's best used when you've clean installed your OS but I guess it could also just be used for a cleanup now and then. It's good to use once in a while to check the health of your operating system and make sure its as error free as possible.

I've got a few tricks you can all use that are super helpful to know. So if you all would like to make sure your systems are the most error free as they can be, I recommend that you go to your search bar and search for command prompt and pin it to your task bar for ease of access.

Then once it's on your taskbar you right click on it and it will pop up saying command prompt, then right click again and choose run as administrator. once you've done that you can use these commands to clean up and make sure you are as error free as possible.

DISM /online /Cleanup-image /ScanHealth

If that comes back with integrity violations or component store corruptions then use this command.

DISM /online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth JUST TO BE CLEAR ONLY USE RESTORE HEALTH IF SCAN HEALTH SAYS THERE ARE INTEGRITY VIOLATIONS OR COMPONENT CORRUPTIONS!

if it comes back with no violations then you don't need to use restore health, just proceed to the next step.

Next use sfc /scannow and let it do its thing. after all that's done you should be good knowing that your operating system is clean and healthy.

Any ways I hope this is useful for people.
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Thanks kindly random stranger
Best to just check using SFC /SCANNOW first since this scan is extremely quick
SFC and DISM have worked fairly well.

I'd wager https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/new-windows-11-build-adds-self-healing-quick-machine-recovery-feature/ is going to have a pretty messy rollout.
Last edited by Electric Cupcake; 53 minutes ago
Self healing? Hmm ok... yea like trust MS for that to be a good thing.
Just like how I disable WU, Defender, Disk Defrag and OneDrive; because they love to do what they want, when they want. No sorry, my time is MY TIME and it's limited. If I want to run WU I'll click Check for Updates when I have time to leave the PC idle to do such a thing.
I have used command prompt to find IP addresses located suspiciously close to...um, "No Such Agency". Once I have whois'd them, they quickly fled my workstation, lol.

Did it the other day. Found five IPs extremely close to that area, and their closest hop revealed an address with a business that does not exist.

As for disk health, I have disk checks automated for my disks now :)
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