Compared to Windows XP, there are few third-party system enhancements, detection, and security classes for Windows Vista. This also gives a lot of viruses Trojan or rogue/malware to take advantage of the machine, so at any time to pay attention to system files are damaged, whether it is complete, can help users to deal with problems in a timely manner.
Although the third party's system enhancement class software is not many, but the user may use the system own function to solve. If there is a problem with your system, users can use the "sfc.exe" that existed in the Windows XP era. This command is basically consistent with XP in Windows Vista usage, with changes in the use of specific parameters.
This article is an example of "scanning the integrity of all protected system files and automatically fixing problems that appear."
Using the Sfc.exe command, the user must open a command Prompt window in the form of administrator privileges and enter: "Sfc/scannow" and then return to see the interface shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Scanning process
Small tip:
When you enter a command, notice that there is a space between "SFC" and "/scannow". In addition, it may take a long time for the system to execute this command, please be patient.
Figure 2 Scan to the damaged file and fix it
Do you see it? The author of the system files because the first two days of the test Vista software, there is to modify the Vista splash screen operation, so that the system file damage. You can easily fix them with the SFC command.
The following are related to the SFC format and parameters:
SFC [/scannow] [/verifyonly] [/scanfile=<file>] [/verifyfile=<file>]
[/offwindir=<offline windows directory>/offbootdir=<offline boot directory>]
/scannow: Scans the integrity of all protected system files and automatically fixes problems with files
/verifyonly: Scan only but not repair
/scanfile: Scans for the integrity of the specified file, if there is a problem performing the repair (Specify the path)
/verifyfile: Scans only and does not fix the integrity of the specified file
Need to specify full path)
/offbootdir: Specify startup directory location when offline repair
/offwindir: Specify Windows directory location when offline repair