CheckSUR has been updated for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 installations
I know I've mentioned CheckSUR a lot around here and its a really vital tool for troubleshooting servicing problems within the OS.
I'm happy to report that the utility has been updated to work on Service Pack 1 installations for Windows 7 and R2. I finished testing it on my own installation yesterday and all seems to be working well.
As usual, you can find it here: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821
--Joseph
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
I would still disagree with you on your first point. If you have the type of corruption that required a repair install in WinXP, the alleviation of that problem is the same in Vista/Win7 (reinstall). Additionally, the remediation steps such as CheckSUR are nothing an end user would have an issue with as its automated. I'll give you the point about CheckSUR size in relation to internet speeds, and that is something we have conversations about internally a lot.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I like it Rahul....blog name updated. You win...well nothing but my thanks for the suggestion <G>Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Understood, in some ways I wish we had that option as well at times but realistically, we have all of the options for corruption repair in the OS now (SFC, DISM commands, etc) so unless you have massive corruption which would require a new installation, its there.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
So are you saying DEP is actually not active or that its just that the toolkit is reporting that its not active?Anonymous
January 01, 2003
@Dean, it will forward you to the 2/22 version of the files. For example, Win7 x64 is located here: www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspxAnonymous
January 01, 2003
If it fixes issues for people, I am fine with thatAnonymous
January 01, 2003
@someone: XP did, but it usually required a rebuild because we werent able to fix the corruption once it hit.Anonymous
February 25, 2011
I have encountered an other malfunction: DEP seems to be not active any more. According to EMET, DEP is running on my system. If I want to activate DEP then I have to login as Administrator. But I have already loged in as Administrator. So, what's going on here Microsoft?Anonymous
February 25, 2011
CheckSUR's getting more and more bloated now. One day it will be the size of SP1 itself.Anonymous
February 26, 2011
It says: Last Review: October 28, 2010 - Revision: 13.1 Is that correct ?Anonymous
February 26, 2011
The changed name of the blog suprised me for a moment... & thn ws happy that i was at the right place and felt Joseph met Ben Armstrong ( The Virtual PC guy) :)Anonymous
February 26, 2011
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February 27, 2011
I liked the new name... I think we could do with the addition of Windows to it & make it more apt.... 'The Windows Servicing Guy' :)Anonymous
February 28, 2011
Great.. I just hope that the search engines are able 2 soak the name changes lol.. Oooh what do you kw... There is another blog that does not seem to be active though [Bing results]: blogs.technet.com/.../os_servicing_guy :)Anonymous
February 28, 2011
Fair enough but why did the XP servicing model did not have to repaired for inconsistencies by huge sized tools?Anonymous
February 28, 2011
Btw nice blog name. I wasn't sure whether it was there or not earlier when I saw it. :PAnonymous
March 01, 2011
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March 01, 2011
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March 01, 2011
Just to add that there is need to be concerned about the size of CHKSUR too as all Windows users across the globe are not blessed with fast internet speeds.. You really need to provide other ways may be an online server along the lines of a symbol server for debugging looks a viable alternative and you can let us choose to download the chksur or go the online route...!!Anonymous
April 02, 2011
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