Upload Photo Pictures to Dropbox Without Computer
Dropbox makes the easiest way to send photos
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Dropbox makes the easiest style to send photos
E-post, Facebook, texting, etc. are all good ways to share new digital stills and videos; but they're typically an image-by-image, select-and-ship process.
Dropbox tin eliminate those extra steps with its Photographic camera Upload option, available on Android and iOS devices.
Shoot, file, and transport photos automatically
Managing photographs just keeps getting easier and easier. Fifteen years agone, we took our undeveloped film to a photo lab, looked over our snaps for a couple of minutes, so dumped the prints and negatives into shoeboxes. Now we snap images with our phone or tablet and immediately e-postal service them to friends or family unit or post them on Facebook for all to see.
Dropbox (site) adds a higher level of automation to digital-image sharing. All you lot have to do is snap the picture; if you're connected to the Internet, Dropbox immediately uploads the paradigm to its servers, then downloads it to a binder on your computer and to other Dropbox-capable devices. One time the photos are on your figurer, sharing them with friends and family tin be just every bit automatic.
Dropbox'south service works with iPhones, iPads, and Android-based phones and tablets. It'll likewise piece of work with one of the new Android cameras, such every bit Nikon'south COOLPIX S800c (info) or Samsung'due south EK-GC100 Milky way (info). You'll too need a Dropbox account, of course, installed on both your PC and on your photographic camera, telephone, or tablet. (From hither on, I'll just utilize the word camera.)
In the following sections, I'll tell you lot how to fix automated Dropbox photo uploading. I'll first by bold you've already installed Dropbox on your PC and camera and yous're using the aforementioned Dropbox account on both.
From Android to PC, without lifting a finger
Here's how to gear up automated photo uploading in Android. I used a Droid 10 telephone running Android 2.iii.iv; your device might behave in a slightly different way.
Open Dropbox on the photographic camera, and then press the physical Menu button. Tap Settings and and then find and tap Turn on Photographic camera Upload. The resulting screen will requite you two settings, shown in Figure one.
The get-go is Upload photos and videos using: Wi-Fi only or Wi-Fi or data plan. (Every bit shown in Effigy 1, Wi-Fi merely is the default.) If y'all don't have an unlimited data program (and fewer and fewer of united states practise), select Wi-Fi but. If you're one of the lucky few who yet have an unlimited plan, enjoy it — y'all probably won't accept it for long.
The second option, Upload existing photos and videos, affects simply what volition happen immediately after you enable Photographic camera Upload. Should Dropbox start its new uploading duties by transferring all photos already on your photographic camera to your PC? It probably should — unless you have a huge drove of images on the phone. If that'south the case, consider physically connecting the phone to the PC one more time to motion the entire collection faster.
Effigy 1. When showtime setting upward Camera Upload on Android devices, you tin can upload all photographic camera images or just new ones.
Exporting snaps from iPhone or iPad to PC
Setting up Dropbox'southward photo-exchange organisation on iPhones and iPads is similar to the procedure for Android. I used a Wi-Fi-only iPad 2 running iOS 6, only setup should be similar on the iPhone. Earlier versions of iOS might non have the Camera Upload pick, simply y'all tin yet manually upload selected images through Dropbox.
In the Dropbox app, tap the Settings icon in the lower-right corner of the Dropbox console (which is on the left side of the screen). Tap Photographic camera Upload, then turn the Photographic camera Upload switch on.
Side by side, a pop-up dialog box will ask whether you want to Salvage All or Only New (run across Figure 2). In other words, do you want Dropbox to upload the photos already on your device? If yous answer Only New, it volition ignore those photos and upload only the pictures you accept from now on. As with Android, I recommend Save All, unless you have a massive photo drove to transfer. Make your choice and tap Enable.
Effigy 2. When setting upwardly Camera Upload on iOS devices, you lot can initially transfer all images or merely new ones.
Finding newly uploaded images on your PC
In one case you've changed these settings, Dropbox volition automatically upload your images (stills and videos) into a new folder — Camera Uploads — inside the Dropbox folder on your PC.
At this point, it's important to note that Photographic camera Uploads doesn't sync with your photographic camera in the typical bidirectional Dropbox file–synching fashion. Your photos will move just ane management: from camera to PC. If you lot edit or delete a picture on the PC, the changes volition not be reflected inside your camera. That could be confusing over time, so it'south all-time to clean out your telephone's picture gallery every so often — after ensuring new photos are on your PC.
Continue in mind that the Camera Uploads folder will appear for any device on which you've installed Dropbox and you're using the same account — including your camera.
Sharing the right photos the right way
Your photos are now moving to your PC (and possibly other devices with Dropbox installed) with no effort on your part. Y'all can share them with friends and family unit just as easily by sharing the Photographic camera Uploads folder on your computer. However, there are ii good reasons yous might not want to.
Start, if you give other people access to your Camera Uploads folder, you lot lose some editorial power over which photos they meet. You don't really desire anybody puzzling over that accidental snap of the kitchen floor you oasis't had time to delete — or worse, that peculiarly unflattering moving-picture show your spouse took of you lot downwardly by the lake.
The safer solution: Drag the pictures you lot desire to share into a separate, shared folder within the Dropbox binder. (Dropbox'southward default Photos binder will practice.) This takes a bit more than endeavour, merely information technology's still easier than uploading them to Facebook or Flickr. What's more, you'll know that others will see just the all-time pictures — including those y'all've had time to ingather and fix. (You can even include some older, favorite photos, too.)
Second, you probably don't want the folder shared in the Dropbox, file-synching sense of that word. If you use standard sharing, your friends and family will need their own Dropbox accounts to access your folder. Worse, your photo binder might take upwardly precious space in their Dropbox accounts. And possibly even worse than that, those you share with will have the power to alter the contents of your photo folder. Exercise yous really want that?
Instead, create a shared link. This allows anybody to view your photos (and admission other files) via the Web — all they demand is the right URL. To see what link-sharing looks similar from the recipient'southward bespeak of view, check out this collection of recent cat photos. (Unlike my human family, my cats don't object to existence publicly displayed. Besides, what's cuter than a new kitten?)
To provide your friends and family unit with a similar experience (your images, not those of my cats), right-click the folder you want to share and select Dropbox/Share link (shown in Figure 3). This pops up a Web page of the photos, with a dialog box of sharing options. Y'all tin add names or e-mails and have Dropbox send invites. I suggest simply clicking Copy link to this page (see Effigy 4) and pasting the URL into an email. Information technology's more personal and really easier. Thereafter, friends and family unit can utilize the same link to encounter new photos added to the folder.
Figure 3. Correct-click a file or folder within a Dropbox folder to share images via the Web.
Figure 4. Creating a shared-photos link lets others view your images without a Dropbox account.
Long-term photo maintenance
A few other touches volition aid with image sharing in the long run.
If you're using Windows seven, brand both of the photo folders (Camera Uploads and the one you're sharing) part of Windows' Pictures library. This will make the folders easier to load, and information technology will help photo programs such as Photograph Gallery find them. To add a folder to the Pictures library, right-click the folder in Windows Explorer and select Include in library/Pictures.
If you've paid for additional storage on Dropbox, motility all photos you're willing to share with friends and family to a shared-link folder and just leave them there. With a gratuitous Dropbox business relationship, you lot'll probably have to prune the stored images every and then often to keep within the limited storage infinite. This doesn't mean deleting photos — just moving them out of the shared folder and back into your local My Pictures folder (outside of Dropbox).
Which reminds me: enjoy the cat pictures now. They're going to disappear in a calendar month or two.
Diagnosing PC hangs and freezes redux
Sometimes the simple approaches to troubleshooting an ailing PC just don't piece of work.
Just numerous complimentary tools — including some that are congenital into Windows — can usually lead to a solution.
Unable to observe the cause of frustrating freezes
Suffering from random PC freezes, reader Bill Wilson tried a technique described in a previous LangaList Plus cavalcade. Unfortunately, he'southward still looking for the source — and a solution — to what's bogging down his system.
- "Your [Aug. 23] article, 'Apps temporarily — and randomly — freeze,' suggests using the program 'What'due south my computer doing?' [free; site] to diagnose the problem. Obviously, the guy who wrote to you had used information technology successfully.
"But when my computer freezes, I don't become a response until the freeze goes away. I tried using What's my estimator doing?, but clicking its taskbar icon does cipher during the freeze.
"My freezes don't happen very often — maybe twice a month. [Merely when the system stops,] it won't respond to anything (including Ctrl+Alt+Del) for several minutes. Sometimes the difficult-drive light will be continuously on; other times it will exist off and doesn't even blink. It's scary to run into the hard-drive light constantly on when there's no network traffic and I'm not using the keyboard!
"When the difficult-drive lite is constantly on and the PC won't answer, I've tried forcing a shutdown. But when the system comes dorsum up, it continues in its frozen state — I have no command.
"Eventually, the PC frees up and works normally."
Commencement, Bill, I propose using the What's my computer doing? (WMCD, for short) utility in a slightly different way. Here's what to do:
Make sure WMCD is running in the background. Then, next time your PC hangs, immediately open WMCD's window when the PC resumes performance (i.e., the hang ends) and quickly click the Freeze option (see Figure 1). This prevents WMCD's brandish from updating, keeping data the tool has already collected from scrolling off the screen.
Figure i. The Freeze option in What's my computer doing? preserves the last ten–15 seconds of recorded activeness.
With the WMCD display frozen, curl downwards in the master window surface area. There, you'll see all recently active programs and processes. (Again, see Figure one.) The further down you lot scroll, the further back in fourth dimension you lot'll see.
With luck, you'll see the tail stop of whatever was consuming and then much of your PC's time and attention. One of the listed programs or processes is the probable culprit.
If that footstep fails, you can effort a more powerful diagnostic tool that's built into Windows — Functioning Monitor. I discussed its function and utilise in the June 13 Height Story, "Exploring Windows' Authoritative Tools: Office two."
In detail, advisedly read two sections of that article: "Using ResMon to cure hangs and delays" and "Beyond the basics." The former might help analyze hangs as they happen; the latter will help you gear up detailed log files that might evidence what's going on with your software before, during, and after the freezes.
One of those three options — the WMCD, ResMon, or "Beyond the basics" method — should let you pinpoint the exact cause of your hangs.
Whether to get out free space on an SSD
George Holland is concerned nearly running out of space on his solid-state drive (SSD).
- "Anybody is talking about the reliability and speed of modern SSDs. However, I take a problem, and I can't find an easy answer or ready.
"My operating system (Win7 Dwelling house Premium x64) and information are on a 111GB SSD that at present has only 45.3GB free. My user folder is the main culprit, and it volition — of form — go on to grow over time.
"There does not appear to be an easy manner to movement the user folder to my SATA drive. I've found instructions for moving parts of the user folder, only they're complex and seem dangerous.
"I would greatly appreciate an commodity or two devoted to this problem."
With over 45GB free on your SSD, I don't remember you really take to exercise annihilation — yet. That's actually a lot of free space! Plus, it makes sense to keep the SSD rather full so you'll get its speed do good for equally many files equally possible.
To put it another manner, empty infinite on an SSD means y'all aren't using some of the high-speed file-storage space you lot've paid for. The way to really get your money's worth from an SSD is to let it behave its full share of files. Use its space!
Then here's my proffer: Practice nada for at present. Permit the SSD gradually make full in the natural course of events. When your gratis space gets downwards to, say, 15 percent or so (that'due south well-nigh 17GB of your SSD's 111GB capacity), consider taking action to regain some storage space.
One good fashion to free up space on an SSD (or whatever difficult drive) is to enable file and folder compression for selected folders, such as My Documents. (Right-click a file or folder and, in the Full general tab, click Avant-garde. Select Compress contents to salvage disk space. Your results will depend on the mix of files you have (some file types shrink far more than others), but information technology'southward non uncommon for compression to open upward thirty percent to 50 per centum of the space occupied by the targeted files and folders!
Moreover, opening a compressed file on the SSD (and compressing the file when you salve it) should still be faster than accessing an uncompressed file on your SATA.
When compression is no longer plenty, selectively move to the lowest degree-used or least-important files to your conventional hard drive'southward slower storage. For example, skilful places to start are your My Pictures and My Music folders; yous won't gain much, if any, space compressing JPEGs and MP3s (because those are file formats that are already compressed), and they're typically accessed infrequently.
Vista and Windows vii make it relatively easy to motion folders such as My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, and and so on. For an illustrated how-to, click to the Dec. one, 2011, LangaList Plus column, "Different ways to motion user folders."
Only for at present, with 45GB costless, I'one thousand betting you lot won't need to compress or motion annihilation for quite a while.
In short: You paid for fast storage — use it!
A reader's tip for extreme data security
Windows Secrets reader Ron sent in this impressive method for securing sensitive information on his PC. Although he goes further than I feel the need to, his technique shows how much you tin do with readily available tools and a fiddling effort.
- "I've been using SecurStar'due south DriveCrypt [free trial, and then U.Due south. $60; site] for over five years to encrypt my fiscal information. TrueCrypt [free; site] works as well.
"First, I create ii virtual containers (or virtual disks), i about 20MB and the other near 10MB. I have all my rarely accessed sensitive files in 1 and the more frequently accessed files in the other.
"I never mountain these virtual disks while continued to the Internet, and I always reboot and run CCleaner prior to and later on accessing these virtual disks.
"This disconnect/clean/reboot procedure takes only a couple of minutes prior to accessing my protected, personal files. The follow-up clean/reboot/reconnect adds a couple of minutes more. I've never had any type of breach.
"Although this procedure might be overkill, the protected files contain nearly all my important family information. All other, less-secured files are stored in a folder backed up by DropBox."
Awesome, Ron! I applaud your dedication to personal security!
Another reader security recommendation
Tom Dalton suggests an unusual anti-keylogger (Wikipedia definition) tool.
- "Consider Keyscrambler [site]. It protects your computer so no one can capture your passwords as y'all blazon them — always.
"One time the software is installed, no keylogger can steal any countersign you lot blazon."
Thanks, Tom. Keyscrambler is highly specialized software that recognizes countersign-entry fields. One part of Keyscrambler inserts itself at the driver level to intercept and encrypt a password as you lot type it. The encrypted password is and then delivered by the operating organization to the target software — say, a sign-in dialog box in your browser.
A second part of Keyscrambler so decrypts the password and inserts it into the password-entry field yous're filling. Thus, any keylogging or other snooping software that resides in betwixt the keyboard and the destination software sees simply encrypted gibberish. (Bank check out the site for a fuller description of how Keyscrambler works.)
The free version of Keyscrambler recognizes and protects passwords typed into Internet Explorer, Firefox, and a handful of other software. 2 paid versions work with various other programs. The utility's info folio lists the versions, prices, and capabilities.
If you're in a situation where there's a serious risk of password theft by keylogging software (mostly with shared PCs, I remember), this software could give you an extra measure of countersign security.
Thanks, Tom! Interesting software!
Readers Tom Dalton and Ron will each receive a gift certificate for a book, CD, or DVD of their choice for sending the tip nosotros printed above. Send u.s.a. your tips via the Windows Secrets contact page.
The ultimate virus scan: Clean outside Windows
No affair how proficient your precautions, malware can even so infect your reckoner.
If you suspect an infection but your antivirus plan tells you otherwise, take Windows out of the calculation and run your AV in a not-Windows environment where the infection tin't hide.
Use Linux to run antivirus software on a PC
Malware can be extremely clever. Infections can cake your AV app from doing its job properly; it might even defeat supplementary malware scanners. But malware that infects Windows is specific to that Os. It no longer works and can't hibernate every bit easily from some other operating organisation.
There are plenty of proficient, free malware scanners that run in other environments — many of them Linux-based. And the practiced news is, you don't accept to know anything about Linux to utilize them. Simply boot the non-Windows Bone, and the scanner of your choice pops up.
Cull the best media for your AV arrangement
Virtually all not-Windows AV tools are designed to boot from CDs. You lot can also put them onto a bootable wink drive, but that by and large takes more work. And it might be worth the actress effort. Not all PCs have a working optical drive, but they all have a USB port. You can carry a wink drive in your pocket and, when you're through using it as an AV tool, employ information technology for something else.
But since these programs are designed to be put onto optical discs, let'due south start there.
For bootable CDs, you need .iso-file support
You can't copy AV and arrangement files to a CD and await them to kicking a PC. Y'all have to burn an .iso image (Wikipedia definition) onto the disc. Think of .iso files every bit downloadable CDs. Many AV applications tin exist downloaded as bootable .iso files.
With Windows vii — either on the suspect reckoner or another ane — creating the bootable CD is easy: simply download the file, double-click it, and follow the prompts.
Before versions of Windows lack this congenital-in .iso support. If y'all're running XP, for instance, download a 3rd-party .iso burner such equally Active@ ISO Burner (info). Once the app is installed, y'all can create a bootable CD past simply double-clicking the .iso file and following the instructions.
Below, I'll explain how to plough an .iso file into a bootable flash drive for my ii recommended malware scanning programs.
Picking the right bootable scanner
I applied the following weather condition to my choice of scanners. Beginning, they had to be from companies known to exist effective at catching malware. (Well, duh!) For guidance, I turned to AV-Comparative'south most contempo file-detection tests (downloadable PDF). I considered scanners only from companies whose conventional antivirus programs scored ameliorate than 99 percent.
I side by side picked companies that offer a costless, bootable scanner that doesn't crave you lot to buy and install whatsoever of their other programs. Likewise, the scanner had to work reliably (yous'd be amazed how many didn't) and exist reasonably easy to use.
There's i thing I didn't await for — speed. Certain, we want fast operation from our full-time AV apps that continuously run in the background. If they're swollen and badly written, they'll deadening downwards everything. But a scanner run in another OS environment is running past itself — there are no other apps to slow down.
Based on these criteria, I picked Kaspersky Rescue Deejay and F-Secure Rescue CD. Kaspersky is the easiest one to set up and utilize — specially if you're using a flash drive. F-Secure might be just a bit better at catching the bad guys; the company scored 99.iii percent on AV-Comparative'due south tests, compared to Kaspersky's 99.2 pct. (Four AV products scored better than F-Secure, but they lacked either bootable or functional scanners.)
Go on in mind that picking between the 2 scanners is non an "either/or" decision. If you're seriously worried about a difficult-to-remove infection, two scanners are better than one.
One quick note: Both these programs need to update their database after yous boot them. Although they both support Wi-Fi, you'll have an easier time if your PC has an Ethernet connection.
Kaspersky: Fast, easy, and familiar AV scanning
For a serious infection (which is probably why yous're using a bootable, non-Windows AV production), I recommend starting with Kaspersky Rescue Disk (info). Its graphical user interface will brand any Windows user feel at home (see Figure one).
Effigy 1. Kaspersky's scanner has a friendly graphical interface.
Kaspersky, however, doesn't automatically update its database. Before you start a scan, select the My Update Middle tab and then click the big Start update button (see Effigy 1).
Figure 2. Before running the scanner, you must manually update its virus database.
Kaspersky'due south scanner is remarkably easy to set up on a flash drive. Along with the .iso file, download what might exist the nigh artlessly titled programme in figurer history: the Utility to tape Kaspersky Rescue Disk ten to USB devices (download page; nether Stride 2). Put it into the same folder as the .iso file, run the utility, and follow the prompts.
F-Secure: Getting down to nuts
You won't notice whatever of Kaspersky'south fancy graphics in the F-Secure Rescue CD (info). On the other hand, the patently-text screens might make you cornball for DOS.
F-Secure has one ease-of-employ reward over Kaspersky. You don't accept to tell it to update the database. If it finds an Cyberspace connection, it updates automatically.
Figure 3. F-Secure'due south interface is blank-bones, simply it updates its virus database automatically
F-Secure doesn't provide a manner to plough the "CD" into a flash drive, but there is a third-political party tool bachelor. The Universal USB Installer (info) is usable with just about whatever bootable Linux .iso file.
The Universal Installer isn't every bit easy to utilise every bit Kaspersky's utility, but it's not hard, either. Insert a flash drive and run the Universal Installer (you lot don't have to install it). Next, make the wink drive bootable in three steps:
- Select the correct Linux distribution (in this case, F-Secure Rescue CD, which is most the bottom of a very long list).
Figure iv. Pick the F-Secure distribution.
- Tell the program where it tin can find the .iso file.
- Select the flash drive by drive alphabetic character (run across Figure v). If you don't see it, cheque the Now Showing All Drives (BE CAREFUL) pick.
Figure 5. Exist certain to select the right drive letter for the wink drive.
And do be careful. If you select another drive with important information on it, you're going to be sorry. The .iso-writing process will overwrite that data.
Bottom line. Either of these programs should catch and clean out whatsoever infection is hiding on your PC. If not, you should consider the strong possibility that any's wrong with your computer, information technology's not malware.
Windows viii learns lessons from Windows 7
As about Windows 7 users know, patching the operating system can result in both minor and major system failures.
Windows viii, due out Oct. 26, comes with new tools that should prevent or fix patching problems.
Using component-based servicing
When Microsoft built Vista, it completely redesigned how Windows obtained updates. Instead of retaining Windows XP's multiple ways to install patches, Microsoft opted for one update system that not only installed patches more than quickly but also could prepare itself when the updating process failed. (Organisation recovery no longer needed the original Windows installation media.)
Unfortunately, the arrangement wasn't perfect — problems cropped upwards that have persisted through Windows vii. With Windows 8, Microsoft finally added new tools and fixes that should make Windows updating easier and more reliable.
Today, when you click Install updates in Vista or Windows vii, Windows Update or Microsoft Update downloads the patch files, stages them, and and then requests a organization reboot. It's during the reboot that the update system's heavy lifting starts. An entry in TechNet'due south The Windows Servicing Guy blog provides details on how this works.
When cracks in the updating system appeared not long after Microsoft released Vista, the company offered an It tool — CheckSUR — that could detect and repair update servicing-stack failures, as discussed in another post from The Windows Servicing Guy.
Installing the utility — renamed the Organization Update Readiness Tool (SURT) — is explained in MS Support commodity 947821. SURT tin be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center site (article 947821 includes download links for the various versions of Windows), or it might bear witness up in Windows Update when Vista'southward or Win7's update organization detects an update-installation failure.
Hither's a list of annoying Windows 7 issues that SURT addresses:
- 0x80070002 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND The organisation cannot find the file specified.
- 0x8007000D ERROR_INVALID_DATA The data is invalid.
- 0x800F081F CBS_E_SOURCE_MISSING The source for the package or file non institute.
- 0x80073712 ERROR_SXS_COMPONENT_STORE_CORRUPT The component store is in an inconsistent state.
- 0x800736CC ERROR_SXS_FILE_HASH_MISMATCH A component's file does not match the verification data present in the component manifest.
- 0x800705B9 ERROR_XML_PARSE_ERROR Unable to parse the requested XML information.
- 0x80070246 ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER An invalid character was encountered.
- 0x8007370D ERROR_SXS_IDENTITY_PARSE_ERROR An identity cord is malformed.
- 0x8007370B ERROR_SXS_INVALID_IDENTITY_ATTRIBUTE_NAME The name of an attribute in an identity is not inside the valid range.
- 0x8007370A ERROR_SXS_INVALID_IDENTITY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE The value of an attribute in an identity is not within the valid range.
- 0x80070057 ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER The parameter is incorrect.
- 0x800B0100 TRUST_E_NOSIGNATURE No signature was nowadays in the subject.
- 0x80092003 CRYPT_E_FILE_ERROR An mistake occurred while Windows Update reads or writes to a file.
- 0x800B0101 CERT_E_EXPIRED A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying confronting the current organisation clock or the fourth dimension postage stamp in the signed file.
- 0x8007371B ERROR_SXS_TRANSACTION_CLOSURE_INCOMPLETE One or more required members of the transaction are non nowadays.
- 0x80070490 ERROR_NOT_FOUND Windows could non search for new updates.
Unfortunately, Windows vii has a dirty piddling secret. At that place are withal servicing-stack bug SURT can't set up. For example, when y'all run the tool in Windows 7, it reports that in that location are missing files, which in turn signal to missing parts of by security patches and updates.
Equally discussed in the September 2009 TechNet commodity, "Advanced guidelines for diagnosing and fixing servicing corruption," checkSUR (every bit it was then named) would written report that it was unable to repair some update files. The files had to be replaced past the Windows user. In Windows 7, this meant looking at the update-organization log file, seeing whether the missing files matched a KB patch number, and manually copying the needed files from some other, like system.
The Windows updating rules change in Windows viii
Knowing that this manual file-copying procedure was a horrible customer experience, Microsoft made improvements in Windows 8. The new repair procedure is yet far from perfect — you accept to run it from a command line — but at least you don't have to pick pieces of patches from a working organization.
In identify of the split checkSUR application, Windows 8 has a new, born feature — Inbox Corruption Repair — that lets the operating system ready itself without pulling $.25 of files from other locations. The tool is designed to repair any corruption or servicing issues with the help of Windows Update. A recent postal service from The Windows Servicing Guy gives detailed instructions for running the new tool from a command line.
But first, y'all have to open up a command window. In Win8, place the cursor on the right side of the Win8 home screen and correct-click. Select the All Applications charm, then scroll through the list and find Command Prompt, as shown in Effigy 1. Right-click its icon and select Run as ambassador.
Effigy ane. The Win8 command-line tool is in the All Applications charm.
Once you have a command prompt, type in DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and press Enter. The process begins and displays its progress every bit a percentage, as shown in Effigy 2. If the tool needs to repair whatsoever files, it will go to Windows Update and download what it needs.
Figure 2. Windows 8'southward Inbox Corruption Repair update repair tool runs from a command prompt.
Expect the process to take a good 15 to 20 minutes to consummate. When information technology'due south washed, a cbs.log file (c:\windows\logs) will indicate whether there were whatsoever actual fixes. (You must copy the log file to your Documents folder to view it.) It will notation whatever CBS Manifest Corruption, CBS Metadata Corruption, CSI Manifest Abuse, CSI Metadata Corruption, and CSI Payload Corruption fixes.
Inbox Corruption Repair would be amend if it had a dainty GUI wrapper or were integrated into Windows Update as an selection. But it is a much-needed kickoff. I take had to run a nondestructive Win7 reinstall to fix an update-based system corruption. I'd rather not have to go through that again.
Microsoft will keep checkSUR/System Update Readiness Tool for repairing Windows 7 — the new version in Win8 will non exist backported. Microsoft plans to update checkSUR as long every bit it supports Windows 7.
Make this one more of those hidden features in Windows 8 that keep me interested in the new OS — or rather some other reason to await beyond the new Bone.
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