thecomputerguy
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Client contacted me in a panic on a Saturday, and against my better judgment I decided to help. Two computers, both down at home. Main desktop looks like a failed NVme SSD, no boot, tried to boot to NIC. Laptop everything is crashing. We write off the desktop and agree to replace it. I told him I would try to get the laptop operational to get him by until I could replace his desktop.
I login to the laptop and as expected, nothing is working, it boots but Chrome Crashes, Outlook Crashes, Desktop has no Icons, can't right click on desktop. Run explorer.exe does nothing. I fiddle around a little bit and immediately think, this is acting like a full HD.
Sure enough this laptop has 0% free space. I clear out like 40GB's of unused data from old profiles and after reboot I expect everything to be happy.
But it's not.
Chrome works but still, no desktop icons, no right click on the desktop, Outlook still stuck.
On a whim I decide to give a tool I had basically stopped using since it has never worked for me in the past, and since it was a Saturday I decided to throw the hail mary at it... and it worked!
SFC /SCANNOW
I'm stunned. Icons are back, right click works fine, Outlook works fine.
Who would have thought. I stopped using SFC /SCANNOW years ago because I can't even remember that last time it actually did anything.
So, I guess it still can. Give it a shot next time y'all!
My thanks for this? 1 hour of labor and a call bright at early at 830am on Monday "When's my new computer going to be ready?"
Chill bro.
I login to the laptop and as expected, nothing is working, it boots but Chrome Crashes, Outlook Crashes, Desktop has no Icons, can't right click on desktop. Run explorer.exe does nothing. I fiddle around a little bit and immediately think, this is acting like a full HD.
Sure enough this laptop has 0% free space. I clear out like 40GB's of unused data from old profiles and after reboot I expect everything to be happy.
But it's not.
Chrome works but still, no desktop icons, no right click on the desktop, Outlook still stuck.
On a whim I decide to give a tool I had basically stopped using since it has never worked for me in the past, and since it was a Saturday I decided to throw the hail mary at it... and it worked!
SFC /SCANNOW
I'm stunned. Icons are back, right click works fine, Outlook works fine.
Who would have thought. I stopped using SFC /SCANNOW years ago because I can't even remember that last time it actually did anything.
So, I guess it still can. Give it a shot next time y'all!
My thanks for this? 1 hour of labor and a call bright at early at 830am on Monday "When's my new computer going to be ready?"
Chill bro.
