[Solved] Resetbase cmd never ends working

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Oh no, you will break "Reset This PC" feature


who cares about that useless feature

 

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You cared enough to fix the W10UI scripts

Btw, on 16299.15 > 16299.19 it didn't break resetpc.
On tablets a very handy option to reinstall windows

 

It seems way above my experience too, but let's see

 

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Surely that brilliant idea can be implemented in an easier way today.

I think that when that program was written there wasn't any better solution to deal with the (then new) Vista restricted permissions.

So half of the program is dedicated to backup, remove and restore the permissions. Something that likely can be avoided using nsudo or alike.

Also, at the time, there wasn't a command to deal with [hard]links (hence the use of the external ln.exe utility), nowadays we have mklink ready to be used...

But easier doesn't mean easy, what winsxslite does is incredibly simple conceptually, but complicate to implement correctly. Especially taking in account that a mistake can destroy an installation...

 

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Wow @abbodi1406, great!

I talked of winsxslite just a month ago or so with @George King , I'm sure he will appreciate your work as well

 

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Good. I'll experiment with those in the next few days as ATM I'm a bit busy.

I need to understand if it works well on Win8, w/o destroying .net or alike, and also what happens on Win10. There we have resetbase, obviously, but WinSxSlite may still be useful for installations made with unintended/not so clean methods like Hypercores with GUI where MS' reset-base doesn't dare to touch anything.

 

P.S. for MD5file.exe look slike the stock command


certutil.exe -hashfile filename.txt MD5

does the job, but I have no clear idea if that's the case in older W10/W8.x/W7

 

I have never had/seen a built in Windows repair, reset, fix, troubleshoot, system restore or any of that work properly anyway. I would disable and completely remove it all if I could, and just rely on something else like Macrium Reflect. Now that shtuff works! Takes me ~20 seconds to completely restore a full backup image, 1:14 minute to make one.

 

Reset PC is not like those fix commands (although they all work fine when not tinkered with), it reinstalls the entire OS. When no resetbase is performed it will work as intended.

 

Yeah, I was just talking about Windows tools in general, mainly "troubleshooters". If I was going to "reset PC", I'd just wipe it clean and reinstall "proper". I prefer alternate, and vastly superior, IMO, tools. Macrium is a 100% fix for anything not hardware...assuming you store or backup your daily data/changes elsewhere of course. I keep almost nothing of importance on my actual Windows partition.

 

Each time you use a shortcut to "fix" a problem you miss one opportunity to understand something.

But even if you are forced by time constraints or alike to surrender, why use a stupid SW like macrium when you can learn native vhds, and solve everything with a copy operation of a single file?

Forget partitions, move to this century.