15 hours on repair windows component store

[sshern007]

Windows 8.1
Latest update

Running very long.
See screenshot. Task manager shows only Bluetooth and smart de drag running.

[Shane]

Damn that is a long time lol

But I have seen that command in Windows do that. You will see the cpu and drive are being used, so it is working. The program simply calls DISM in windows to cleanup the competent store. I think MS has bugs in it, because when I run it for the first time on a system it only takes about 5 or 10 min. Then if I run the same command on the same system a 2nd time it takes over an hour.

Windows 8 is the first version of Windows that MS gave that command to, and looks like it still needs worked. But Dont stop it, let it finish, disable any and all programs you can to help it move along.

This is the command that is taking so long

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

But I have never seen it take as long as it is on your system, does the event viewer show any errors or anything?

Shane

[sshern007]

I closed the text box,  then the app finished. I haven't read any log yet.Was that a mistake?

[Shane]

There is a chance that if you stop the DISM from working while it is in the middle of doing something that something could get screwed up. But if DISM was stuck there you would most likely be fine.

I really really wish MS would have gave a progress with the dism command, instead if gives you no information what so ever.

Shane