Recall that I was unable to run "sfc /scannow" when booted off the Windows installation DVD (live-DVD), getting the same "Windows Protection System could not start the repair service" that I was...

Windows 10 has become such an embarrassment for Microsoft. Dism is simply broken and, by all accounts of various Web articles, has been so for years. The logs from the maintenance tools, CBS.log,...

2018-04-08 18:39:10, Info CBS Failed to start sandbox process [HRESULT = 0x80070002 - ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND]
2018-04-08 18:39:10, Info CBS Failed to create new...

Well, at least there's some progress.

I didn't look at cbs.log carefully (misled by some Web info), but the log clearly indicated that wrpint.dll was missing/corrupt. I copied a wrpint.dll from...

Yup, the "canned" solutions generally don't work, especially in attempting to fix fundamentally flawed architecture.



Haven't played with this, but I suspect it's not the immediate concern. ...

Nope.

I'm a software engineer with several decades of experience.

I've tried pretty much everything under the sun found doing Web searches for solutions.

But regardless, the _one_ thing that should have worked, booting off the Win10 1709 DVD and using its "sfc...

The saying "there is no security where physical isolation/security is missing" always rings true. If some hacker/insider hooks up a USB drive and boots off some live-DVD, then the (then off-line)...

There are lots of reasons for tree-copying/tree-syncing the entire file system, such as cloning the c: drive so that one can compare the "saved" system stuff against the current running stuff, or...

I'm looking for some on-line utilities to do the (flat) file+directory copies. By flat, I mean verbatim copies of directory trees from one place to another, not some archiving/backup utilities that...

"my Windows NTFS directory and Win10 works fine" = "my Win10 running with the NTFS file system's directories+files works fine"

This is an aside to the issue of Microsoft using hack-upon-hack to...

Is there any file+directory level copy/backup utilities that will work properly under Win10, being able to incrementally copy source to destination faithfully?

It seems to me that Win10's newer...