"BoB" <me@box.invalid> wrote in message
news:jvtiu3d56d6v1fvi827h66ggk67n4bfp60@4ax.com...
| On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:05:19 -0400, "R. McCarty"
| <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote:
|
| >SFC can't really do damage. It's over rated as a diagnostic utility.
| >Windows File Protection monitors & replaces any of the system
| >content that gets replaced automatically. SFC is handy for rebuilding
| >the DllCache folder. But unless the user has dismissed a warning
| >about a system file being replaced and opted to not allow a restore
| >then SFC isn't going to find much to fix.
|
| After reading up on Windows File Protection it sounds like I'm pretty
| well covered so I have no need for SFC. Win98 had no automatic
| protection like that so I occasionally had to do system file restores
| from my backup of the Win folder. Newer freeware/shareware appears
| to be better written in this context when compared to the '90's.

I can say that SFC has repaired WinXP machines before.

Just last month my wife could play any of the games included with XP, as
well as having some other general issues.

Ran SFC and the machine is 100% normal again.