Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once?

SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 301 points –

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.

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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...