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had a couple of windows 2000 pro and server recovery saves. haven't thought about it since. hrmmm
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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Troubleshooting has never been useful, and I think that was new-ish in XP. Startup repair (and chkdsk) have genuinely been useful.
I had a number of occasions where Windows on my work PC f-ed up. None of the times, the windows "troubleshooting" wizard was anything but a waste of time before calling IT or digging into the problem myself.
It used to fix WiFi issues for me back on Windows Vista (bleh). Vista would always have issues when I woke my laptop from sleep mode, and my WiFi would be disconnected and unable to reconnect/properly turn off. Running the troubleshooter would restart my wireless card. Other than that I haven't encountered anything it's helped, but I don't use windows too often these days.
Even once? Yeah, just that once though. It was on like a dell latitude from 2010 and it wasn't a permanent solution either
Well aside from the time it totally bricked my system, it pretty good.
Troubleshooter was always able to fix my network issues. (Basically just resetting it)
I think it fixed my MBR once during Win7 days.
Not once as far as the Troubleshooting Wizards go.