Windows tips

Windows Tips

• Windows repair tools

  • dism
    • dism /online /cleanup-image /CheckHealth (does not perform repairs)
    • dism /online /cleanup-image /ScanHealth (does not perform repairs)
    • dism /online /cleanup-image /RestoreHealth (performs repairs)
  • sfc /scannow

• List directory upto a depth

(for /f "skip=2 tokens=*" %A in ('robocopy . . /l /s /njh /njs /ns /lev:3') do @echo %A) >d:\tmp\dir_list.tx

• If you want an exact filename match, you can qualify the search with name:

name:=Windows.h

• Restore Windows Services Startup Settings
• Windows defender/security essentials manual update
  • Download definition updates for Windows Defender in Windows 10, Windows 8.1/8: 32-bit | 64-bit.
  • Download definition updates for Windows Defender in Windows 7 and Windows Vista: 32-bit | 64-bit.
  • Download definition updates for Microsoft Security Essentials: 32-bit | 64-bit.
• disable windows updates

@echo off
net stop wuauserv
net stop bits
net stop dosvc
SC config  wuauserv start= disabled
SC stop    wuauserv
::note to start
::SC config  wuauserv start= auto
::SC start   wuauserv

• set date variable

set datestr=%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%%date:~12,2%
echo %datestr%

• Windows data recovery software tools
• Analyze the wireless network report