sfc /VERIFYNOW: 28 MB of log

[Jymmy097]

Hi everybody,

I've executed sfc /VERIFYNOW on my Windows 8 64-bit installation because Explorer.exe used to crash soon (now it doesn't crashes anymore, but I wanted to be sure...) and I found a 28 MB (I give you the dimensions just to tell you how many libraries are corrupted on my system) of log when the procedure had finished.
Now I'd like to repair these libraries, I heard about sfc /SCANNOW, but I'm not sure if it is a good idea to execute it. sfc /VERIFYNOW had occupied 700 MB of space in my little 83,3GB SSD and I'm not able to delete the files it had created. Is it a good idea to execute it or not?

I've got another problem: when I perform a disk cleanup (with the Windows 8 tool), it seems to not delete anything! It tells me that it can delete 4/5 GB of things and, after the procedure, I'm not able to notice any changement in the disk free space (even if I reboot my PC), but if I execute the cleanup again (after I rebooted), it says that it can make 73,3 KB of free space...

I'm a bit confused


What can I do?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my bad English.

Jymmy097

 

[David Bailey]

sfc /scannow is safe to run.

I suggest you run it & then run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth in administrator command prompt.
Then reboot & run sfc again.
The unfixable problems sfc finds should get fixed by DISM.

 

[Jymmy097]

sfc /scannow is safe to run.

I suggest you run it & then run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth in administrator command prompt.
Then reboot & run sfc again.
The unfixable problems sfc finds should get fixed by DISM.

Thanks a lot! I'm executing sfc /SCANNOW right now. I hope it works without problems...

What does DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth do? I've never heard this command...
I don't have to reboot after I've executed the first sfc /SCANNOW, have I?
Thanks!

Jymmy097

 

[David Bailey]

sfc /scannow is safe to run.

I suggest you run it & then run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth in administrator command prompt.
Then reboot & run sfc again.
The unfixable problems sfc finds should get fixed by DISM.

Thanks a lot! I'm executing sfc /SCANNOW right now. I hope it works without problems...

What does DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth do? I've never heard this command...
I don't have to reboot after I've executed the first sfc /SCANNOW, have I?
Thanks!

Jymmy097

No reboot after sfc.
Just after DISM.


DISM fixes things sfc cannot.

It fixes the store where sfc is supposed to get stuff to fix stuff.

 

[Jymmy097]

Thanks a lot!

SFC is at 86% of scanning now... it is verifying which files it has to repair. After that I'll run DISM.
Is it a good idea if I run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth before? To check if sfc worked properly or I have to run restorehealth after sfc?

Another thing: how much time will DISM require?

Thanks a lot!

JYmmy097

 

[David Bailey]

Thanks a lot!

SFC is at 86% of scanning now... it is verifying which files it has to repair. After that I'll run DISM.
Is it a good idea if I run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth before? To check if sfc worked properly or I have to run restorehealth after sfc?

Another thing: how much time will DISM require?

Thanks a lot!

JYmmy097

It is better to run sfc first & let it fix what it can.
Then run dism to fix sfc if it couldn't fix everything.
Then reboot because new stuff gets added to the store.
(Like a windows update that requires a reboot)

DISM can take 15 minutes to an Hour to run depending on how much corruption it finds.

 

[Jymmy097]

Thanks a lot!

SFC is at 86% of scanning now... it is verifying which files it has to repair. After that I'll run DISM.
Is it a good idea if I run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth before? To check if sfc worked properly or I have to run restorehealth after sfc?

Another thing: how much time will DISM require?

Thanks a lot!

JYmmy097

It is better to run sfc first & let it fix what it can.
Then run dism to fix sfc if it couldn't fix everything.
Then reboot because new stuff gets added to the store.
(Like a windows update that requires a reboot)

DISM can take 15 minutes to an Hour to run depending on how much corruption it finds.

sfc /SCANNOW is blocked at this time:
Ashampoo® Snap 6 — Ashampoo® Web
the screenshot is in Italian, but it is blocked at 100% of verification competed...
and Windows modules installer Worker is requiring more and more RAM we arrived to 181MB, but it requires 160MB now.
It's 7/8 minutes that the situation is this...

Can you help me?

Thanks!

Jymmy097

 

[David Bailey]

Thanks a lot!

SFC is at 86% of scanning now... it is verifying which files it has to repair. After that I'll run DISM.
Is it a good idea if I run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth before? To check if sfc worked properly or I have to run restorehealth after sfc?

Another thing: how much time will DISM require?

Thanks a lot!

JYmmy097

It is better to run sfc first & let it fix what it can.
Then run dism to fix sfc if it couldn't fix everything.
Then reboot because new stuff gets added to the store.
(Like a windows update that requires a reboot)

DISM can take 15 minutes to an Hour to run depending on how much corruption it finds.

sfc /SCANNOW is blocked at this time:
Ashampoo® Snap 6 — Ashampoo® Web
the screenshot is in Italian, but it is blocked at 100% of verification competed...
and Windows modules installer Worker is requiring more and more RAM we arrived to 181MB, but it requires 160MB now.
It's 7/8 minutes that the situation is this...

Can you help me?

Thanks!

Jymmy097

Close sfc & run dism.

 

[Jymmy097]

I'm going to run DISM. If it doesn't work, when I'll finish the free space on my disk I'll refresh Windows 8.

EDIT: I have something else to do now and I don't have time to run it. Can I shutdown?

 

[David Bailey]

I'm going to run DISM. If it doesn't work, when I'll finish the free space on my disk I'll refresh Windows 8.

EDIT: I have something else to do now and I don't have time to run it. Can I shutdown?

It won't hurt to let it run.
You don't need to watch it.