Yeah, basically that. I’m back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It’s not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I’ve encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?
ETA: I’ve learned from reading the responses that the Windows troubleshooters primarily look for missing or broken drivers, and sometimes fix things just by restarting a service, so they’re useful if you have troublesome hardware.
Yeah, on Win98 (or maybe Win2k), it would always find this obscure sound card driver for this crappy sound card in this Packard Bell I had. Amazing.
But not once ever for any other issue before or since.
strangely Network Troubleshooter always helped me when I was out of ideas why the network just… stopped working
tho never said the problem, things just got fixed in the meantime while it analyzed n shit and then it reported no issues :P
That one usually is successful by disabling your network adapter, then re-enabling it. Basically…
Have you tried turning it off then back again?
yeah, but if the troubleshooter does that it’s somehow works, if I do each step manually what the troubleshooter does, it never works.
there’s some black magic involved…
like the way how unresponding apps suddenly come back to life if I open Task Manager…
I believe the troubleshooter also does a WINSock reset as well. I’m not sure, though. I know it definitely disables/enables the adapter.
https://www.howtogeek.com/785351/how-and-why-to-perform-a-netsh-winsock-reset-on-windows/
Yes it has.
I used to have a sound issue and the repair wizard would always fix it. It would happen again, I think after the next reboot.
Sounds a bit like the repair tool broke the sound everytime itself you shut down to polish its image
Never. I’ve been using since Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows xp
Vista
Windows 8
Windows 10
Not once has it solved a problem
No. That was meant as a statement of I’ve been using windows for that long and since the beginning of Windows (and when ever they introduced the trouble shooter) it’s never worked
Then use it more, because it does work.
~Sinisterly, someone who has been using Windows as long as you but also has used Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 7 and Windows 11.
? Use it more because it “works” even though it’s never worked for me.
That’s your logic?
So you are saying the system uses a powerful AI that learns and adapts? That way over time it will start fixing the issues?
Look at the other comments to see how many people have had no luck with the system. Maybe it works for you but in general it fails.
I once had the troubleshooter fix a networking issue I had. I’m still shook.
