Using the DISM Command Prompt Tool to Repair Windows
⚛️ DISM is a tool included with Windows that can repair some types of Windows corruption.
⚛️ The DISM Command Prompt tool
DISM is a tool for Windows repair that lies between the System File Checker (SFC) and a full Windows reinstall in power. It is run in an administrative Command Prompt in three steps:
– DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
– DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
– DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Running DISM is safe even on healthy systems and can stabilize Windows if problems are detected.
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0:00 DISM Command Prompt
1:30 See how DSIM works
2:10 Checkhealth
3:00 Scanhealth
4:20 Restorehealth
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Hi Leo!! Will this procedure work with Windows 10 ENTERPRISE? Or, does it not matter what version of Windows 10 you are using? The commands are the same??
Do you ever use “Winget upgrade —all” to look for and install program updates?
We get "The source files could not be found" often when running /RestoreHealth. Have spent hours in the past trying to provide with no luck.
Hi Leo
When I have any serious issues with my Windows 10 setup I normally try the following.
SFC /SCANNOW
DISM (as per this video)
Then if still not working correctly.
System Restore
Last resort option
Inline Reinstall of Windows 10
The last one has helped me out of a whole lot of problems in the past. Any chance of doing a video on this option, as I think it could be really useful for some of your viewers? The advantage of this is you don't lose any files or installed applications.
I'm aware there are caveats, mainly Windows needs to be able to be launched in order to do this option, and a copy of Media Creation Tool will be required.
I make a point of creating an image file using this tool after every major Windows update just in case.
GOOD ONE ! JUST WHAT THE commom person, needs TO deal with this ……..
Seems sort of extra. If I suspect any problem I immediately get my backup disk and do a clone restore. Takes about 10 minutes but the whole system is back to clean.
What comes to mind after watching this is to go back and re-learn how to write batch files like we did with DOS and put them on the desktop to be run regularly. Thanks once again Leo.
Windows repair tools vs. Rescatux?
I run restorehealth/SFC every Sunday, whether It's raining or not
How often do you find that DISM or SFC actually fixes the problem? As a person in IT responsible for dozens of machines at work and otherwise my success rate with either of these have been very very low.