Hello admin. The question is. My Windows 8 is two years old and I want to say that all this time I actively used and installed it a large number of different software and games, naturally now it is in a terrible state and many errors appear, for example, when connecting the built-in figure eight Windows antivirus Defender shows an error, and when creating a recovery disc, it says "We cannot create a recovery disc on this computer."
Some required files are missing ... ".
Of course you will advise check the integrity of Windows system files using the command sfc / scannow, but I already ran it and I get an error again:
Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files, but it cannot repair some of them. For details, see the CBS.Log file located in the following path: windir \ Logs \ CBS \ CBS.log. For example. C: \ Windows \ Logs \ CBS \ CBS.log. Please note that logging is not currently supported for offline servicing.
What can I do, I really don't want to reinstall Windows, can I somehow restore the system files?
And more questions, but how to restore system Windows files if it doesn't load?
And where does Windows generally get the original files when restoring its integrity?
Checking the integrity of Windows 8 system files
Recover damaged Windows files using the Dism utility.
Recover damaged Windows files using installation disk Windows.
I think all three methods will be useful to you.
Note: sfc / scannow produceschecks the integrity of system files Windows 7, 8.1 and, if violations are found, replaces damaged files from a specially designated folder WinSxS, all original components are stored in this folder operating system.
Yes, it happens, for example, you decided to check the integrity of the Windows 8 8.1 system files and opened the command line as administrator, then entered the sfc / scannow command, and you have this answer
Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files, but cannot repair some of them ...
In this case, we use the Dism utility, specially designed to restore damaged components of the operating room. Windows systems, but we will need the Internet, since in some difficult cases the missing files will be downloaded to us via Widows Update.
Recovering damaged Windows files using the Dism utility
Open the command line and enter the command
Dism.exe / Online / Cleanup-image / ScanHealth
In my case, Dism found damage - Component store is recoverable
We enter another command
Dism.exe / Online / Cleanup-image / RestoreHealth
The recovery was successful. Component store corruption has been repaired. That's all! Note: If you get errors when entering these commands, then
Unfortunately, almost any Windows user during the operation of the operating system can at any time encounter all sorts of errors. Problems can arise both at the early stage of using the OS, if the user did not pay due attention to his computer, and later, even if the user is very careful to keep the computer clean. In the event that the computer begins to seriously slow down or does not work at all, it is rational to check the system for errors.
Today we will look at ways that will allow you to check Windows for errors and fix them in a timely manner. If you find it difficult to understand the reason for the incorrect or slow operation of the computer, similar methods can become a real lifesaver, returning the computer to its former performance.
How do I check my computer for errors?
Method 1: standard method
Quite a well-known method of finding and fixing errors in Windows, a quick one is already embedded in the system. Many users (especially beginners) may be intimidated by the fact that this function is launched from the command line, but in fact, everything is not scary at all.
So, first of all, we need to run the command line, and with administrator rights. If you are Windows user 10, then in your case, you just need to right-click on the button "Start" and in the displayed list of items select "Command line (administrator)" .
If you are a user of a younger version of this operating system, then you will need to open the search bar and write the query "cmd" into it (without quotes). The search results will display the result on which you need to right-click and select the item "Run as administrator" .
A command line window will appear on the screen. For Windows 10, you can immediately copy the command below, for lower versions of the operating system, you will need to enter the command yourself:
sfc / scannow
To start searching for errors, click on the Enter key. Please note that the process of scanning the system can take quite a long time, so be prepared for the fact that the computer should be active all this time, and the command line should not be closed.
Note that the launched function will first search for errors, and then will automatically proceed to troubleshoot them. In the event that you do not want to fix errors, but just want to check system files, the command will take on a new look:
sfc / verifyonly
Method 2: check the Windows registry with CCleaner
The Windows registry is one of the most important sections of the operating system, where both the operation of standard operating system tools and third-party programs are described in detail.
For example, when installing a program on a computer, new keys are created in the registry to ensure the launch and operation of the program. However, it often happens that by removing a particular program, many entries remain in the registry (and in computer folders as well), which over time can lead to a significant decrease in computer performance and to incorrect operation of programs.
In this regard, in case of problems with the operation of the computer, it is recommended to check windows registry for errors, and the easiest way to do this is using the CCleaner program, the download link for which is located at the end of the article.
Run the CCleaner program and in the left pane of the window go to the tab "Registry" ... Make sure all the checkboxes are checked to the right. Run a registry scan by clicking on the button "Search for problems" .
Scanning the registry won't take long. Once it is 100% complete, click on the button "To correct" .
CCleaner will prompt you to create backup registry. Be sure to agree with this proposal, because in case of problems in the operation of the registry, you can roll back.
Finish cleaning the registry by clicking on the button "Fix marked" .
Search for errors in Windows at least occasionally, and you can avoid many problems in the operation of your computer.
Hello friends. How to find out if the licensed Windows is installed on the computer? The answer to this question is obvious to you if you bought a new PC, laptop or tablet with an activated Home edition in some respectable hardware store. Or if you purchased. But how can you check if the license is real, if it was bought in an OEM-, boxed version or in the form of the same electronic key in some online store? Or if we bought a computer device on the secondary market, and the buyer promised us that he was selling along with the most genuine Windows?Let's try to understand this issue and of course I will give you some examples from my practice when I was able to prove to my clients that the activated system installed on their computer was not licensed.
How to find out if licensed Windows is installed on a computer
Friends, I strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with it first. This is a complex and twisting topic, Microsoft has thrown a lot of wilds in it, but we still tried to present it as simple and understandable as possible. So, deception can lie not only in the fact of the authenticity of the OS keys, but also in the type of licenses (in particular, free trial), to which these keys give access. So you need to have at least a basic understanding of the types of Windows licenses.
Unactivated, pirated and licensed Windows
OS from Microsoft in the context of its activation can be conditionally divided into three types:
- Non-activated;
- Activated pirate;
- Activated licensed.
Unactivated Windows- it is limited to certain features of the OS. In Win7, this is a black desktop and psychoactive notifications that we have become a victim of software counterfeiting. In Win8.1, this is the inability to choose a color for the start screen and an activation window that appears every 4 hours. In Win10, this is the blocking of all personalization settings. A universal way for all versions to find out whether the system is activated or not is the control panel. Press Win + Pause on the keyboard and look at the "Windows Activation" column. If there is activation, we will see it.
If there is no activation, then this is.
Or this, if Win7 is used within a monthly trial period.
The activated system will be the same regardless of the activation method - pirated or legal.
Activated pirated Windows externally and functionally, it does not differ in any way from a legally activated system. If, of course, we are talking about a system installed from a clean distribution, and a separate activation stage using, for example, a KMS activator.
If a third-party assembly of Windows is initially supplied activated, it can interfere with the functionality - something is cut, something is disabled, something (including malicious) is installed. About all the pros and cons of pirated assemblies. Disadvantages of pirated activation:
She can fly off periodically;
Files and processes of the activator are blocked by antiviruses;
Its detection by the competent authorities will lead to bringing to responsibility - civil, administrative or even criminal. As well as, we read the practice of courts on the website of the court decisions of the Russian Federation. We go to the site http: //judicial decisions.rf. And in the "Document text" field, enter a key request, for example, "Windows KMS".
- Note: I especially recommend reading the court practice in cases of copyright infringement of developers at your leisure to all those "smart guys" who insult those who have chosen the path of using paid licensed software in the comments of the site.
Activated licensed Windows Is a legitimate way to use it, which will give us peace of mind at night. And do not be afraid of any inspections by the competent authorities if we use the system for our individual entrepreneur or head any structural unit of the company.
So, genuine and pirated Windows are outwardly and functionally indistinguishable in no way. How to understand which one we are dealing with?
Windows Authenticity Labels
You can find out whether licensed Windows is installed by looking at the authenticity stickers on the computer device. What are these stickers? It:
Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - a sticker on the PC case, on the bottom of the laptop or inside its battery compartment, as well as inside the latter on Surface tablets;
GML Sticker - A hologram sticker with changing colors depending on the viewing angle, introduced since September 2017, the places of application are the same as for the COA.
If license key was purchased separately from the device, by purchasing a boxed version of Windows - an installation DVD or a USB flash drive, authenticity stickers must be on their packaging, respectively. For boxed versions, the same types of stickers are used,
as for the case of the devices - the certificate of authenticity (COA) and holograms.
How to find out if Windows is licensed using the command line
If the seller of a used computer swears by oath that he is selling it with licensed Windows, if a new device is bought in a store with a reputation hitherto unknown to us, the fact of the OS's authenticity can be verified by asking to enter something into the command line. We run it as administrator. And we enter:
slmgr –ato
If the activation is pirated, in the window that appears in the script we will see something like this message.
Or something like this message.
But if the system is genuine, we will see the inscription "Activation completed successfully" in the script.
In addition to the direct inscription about activation in the script window, it is also important to pay attention to the Windows edition. If the title of the editorial office has an addendum "Eval", for example, "EnterpriseSEval", there is, alas, little use for such an authenticity of activation.
How to find out if Windows is licensed using the task scheduler or how pirated activators work
It should be noted that the latest operating systems from Microsoft (Windows 8.1, 10) have a fairly strong protection mechanism against activation by pirated means and at the moment there are only a few activators that can activate the above OS, the most famous is KMSAuto Net. But it works very simply and is easily found in the system. KMSAuto Net creates a folder at the address: C: \ ProgramData \ KMSAutoS and places its files in it.
To constantly reactivate the OS, he is also forced to create his own task in the scheduler.
Once, a friend brought me a laptop with installed and activated Windows 10
and asked if a licensed system was installed on it. I stupidly opened the command line and entered the command already familiar to you: slmgr –ato, the result was very eloquent.
Then I opened the scheduler and showed my friend the task created byKMSAuto Net. The questions disappeared by themselves.
How to check Windows 7 for authenticity
If you are faced with the task of determining the authenticity of Windows 7, then first of all look at the sticker with the license key on the PC case or on the bottom of the laptop, if there is none, then the task becomes much more complicated, since this OS has a weak protection mechanism against activation by pirated tools ... If you ask this question on the official Microsoft website, then you will be advised to install the KB971033 update, created specifically for OS authentication, but for example, this update is installed on this PC,
and the system is activated by a pirate activator and I will prove it to you a little later.
You may also be advised to enter command line: slmgr.vbs / dli, but the message "License status: licensed" does not prove anything.
Also at the office. Microsoft website will advise you to download the tool MGADiag.exe,
In the "Licensing" window you can see the partial product key - 7TP9F and "License status: licensed".
But the key YKHFT-KW986-GK4PY-FDWYH-7TP9F can be on Win 7 installed on Acer laptops, but not in any way on Win 7 installed on a regular desktop computer,
he constantly comes across to me on pirate sevens. This key installs a pirated activation program for Windows 7 Loader by DaZ Activator or Windows7 ULoader 8.0.0.0.
The real license key will not be "googled" at all, since information about it should not be available on the Internet.
Evaluation Windows
Evaluation Windows - offered on the Microsoft Evaluation Center in Win10 Enterprise editions and can be tested for free for 90 days - are perfectly legal systems. You can also add the trial Win8.1 Enterprise to them, it is no longer available for download on the Evaluation Center website, but it can be found on the net, in particular. And, of course, the activation legality check team will show that everything is in order with them. But this order will be temporary.
Evaluation builds are activated for 90 days with a temporary Evalution license activation key. If such an assembly will stand on the computers of the company's system administrators, there is no need to be afraid of any checks by the competent authorities. Everything is legal here. As well as completely legal, because there is no direct prohibition, after 90 days you can cancel the Evalution license and use the system for another 90 days. And then another and another 90 days (activation is reset only three times). Well, then you can reinstall the system. Evaluation editions are the optimal solution for those who still reinstall the OS at least once a year. It is illegal if we are not an IT employee of the company and will use such an Evaluation build for commerce or leisure. But this solution is definitely better than pirated activation - both in technical terms and in terms of legal liability.
So, there is nothing wrong with evaluation Evalution editions if they are not trying to sell them to us as a full-fledged system with a perpetual license. In addition to the method shown in the previous paragraph of the article, you can also identify the Evalution edition by the watermark in the lower right corner of the screen with an inscription in the form of a countdown to the end of the 90-day period. But such inscriptions are very easily removed by the type software. We can make sure that we are dealing with an Evalution license and see the number of days remaining until the end of the 90-day period using the same command line. We run it as administrator. We enter:
slmgr.vbs / dli
And we look at the information.
Documents on Windows
What documents prove the authenticity of a Windows product key? Proof of legitimate use of the OS is:
An email from the vendor of the electronic key - Microsoft itself or an online store. This letter specifically states the key. The system must also be activated by him;
Sales receipts, invoices, acceptance certificates and similar documents from OEM suppliers for OEM devices. Without these documents, there will be a violation of Microsoft's licensing procedures in terms of non-compliance with the terms of use of the OEM license.
So, friends, buying decommissioned and plundered OEM computers by employees of companies, as well as purchasing cheap OEM keys on eBay, is not the best solution. It is undoubtedly better than KMS activators and Windows Evalution assemblies, but not a panacea for problems from the inspection authorities.
It will be interesting for you to read on this topic.
How to find out Windows version-01
Hello everyone today I want to write such a note on how to find out the version of Windows 8.1, since very often users have to explain where to look at it. We will consider Windows 8.1 as an example, but this instruction is also suitable for Windows 10 and 7. This information will be useful for diagnosing problems associated with a particular version, so that you can quickly diagnose your computer and understand the problem solving algorithm.
How to find out the version of the operating system
As you understand, there are a lot of ways, I will show the simplest and at the same time effective, they can be repeated by any computer user. The first way is to press the win + pausebrake keyboard shortcuts or my computer properties (right-click on it). The Control Panel will open> All Control Panel Items> System and at the top you can see the OS version. In my example, this is Windows 8.1 Enterprise, but this is not enough specifics.
How to find out the version of Windows-02
The second way is to open a window by pressing Win + R and enter msinfo32
How to find out the version of Windows-03
In the window that opens, look on the right OS Name and note there is a version field, in my example it is 6.3.9600 Build 9600
Another way is to open the window by pressing Win + R and enter msconfig
The OS version can be found in the download
Well, and the winver command, which you need to type in the command line. As a result of executing the command, an additional window with the current version of Windows 8.1 will open.
There is a method for more advanced users using the Registry Editor. Start - Run or the keyboard shortcuts win + r. In the window that appears, type the regedit command and click the OK button
and in the parameter ProductName find out the Windows OS version. Pay attention there is a BuildLab parameter and it shows the most full version.
Another option to find out the version of Windows 8.1 is in the window, enter dxdiag
The DirectX Diagnostic Tool will open
It's so easy to find out the version of Windows 8.1, you yourself can remember the convenient method for yourself and use it in practice.
