Repair Windows 8 Component store

[jhillman]

I have been running this for 50 minutes. Can I stop it?

[Shane]

It is Windows doing the work itself and it can take a while so dont close it.

I made a system monitor on the repair Window so you can see if the drive or cpu is under use so you can tell if the system is actually doing something or not

Shane

[coover]

Using version 2.6.3, I decided to stop the repair at this point on my Dell Venue 8 Pro. It corrupted the operating system so that IE and most of the "Modern Apps" would open and close immediately. I tried to do a system restore and found that there was such corruption that it would not work. I also tried a system reset and that would not work, either, I eventually had to send the tablet back to Dell who repaired it by reinstalling the operating system.

DO NOT STOP THIS REPAIR. IT MAY CORRUPT YOUR COMPUTER SO THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO REINSTALL EVERYTHING.

[Shane]

Correct!

That repair does the following two commands

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Which is where Windows takes over and it goes through cleaning up and working with the system files and the files in the winsxs folder. Stopping it when it is working with system files is a bad idea!

Shane

[DJDaren]

Hi there, I know previous have said that the repair component store can take take awhile and someone mentioned 50 minutes...for me it's been running for 3 hours and it's still on step 1.  Hoping someone will just let me know that this is fine

thanx

[Shane]

I have seen it takes hours and it gives no progress at all, not sure why they didnt do that. As long as you see the cpu being used then you know it is still working

Shane