{"id":1303,"date":"2019-05-06T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2019-05-06T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:45:25","slug":"repairing-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/06\/repairing-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A little while ago numerous updates started to fail to install.  I like to keep my operating systems up to date so decided to tackle the issue.  Always have a backup of your system before attempting any repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first technique was to run sfc \/scannow which checks systems files and generally replaces any problem files.  Unfortunately it did find problem files but was unable to correct all of the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second technique was to mount a Windows 10 iso image and then attempt a reinstallation with the option of retaining personal files and applications, this also failed to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third technique was to run dism \/online \/cleanup-image \/restorehealth this ran successfully and I then ran sfc \/scannow which also ran successfully.  I then booted into safe mode and deleted the SoftwareDistribution folder within the Windows folder to remove all the previous failed updates.  I then rebooted and installed the latest Windows updates.  So far so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago numerous updates started to fail to install. I like to keep my operating systems up to date so decided to tackle the issue. Always have a backup of your system before attempting any repairs. The first technique was to run sfc \/scannow which checks systems files and generally replaces any problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/06\/repairing-windows-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repairing Windows 10<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camelotphotography.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}