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Gerry Schmitz wrote: and thought mine should too.
What is your game? Is it available somewhere that we can see it?
What kind of game is it? War simulation, I'm guessing.
Tell us more. 
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It's a UWP implementation of the rules of Kriegsspiel (1824-1882). I plan to release it in the Windows Store. It's a question of where to stop. It's a simulator; teaching tool (strategy; tactics; evolutions); a war "game"; etc. Looking to add Bluetooth multi-player.
Kriegsspiel – How a 19th Century Table-Top War Game Changed History - MilitaryHistoryNow.com
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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This morning, as is usual on the second Wednesday of the month, there was a major update for Windows 11. As usual, I ran sfc /scannow after the update, to check for corrupt system files. As usual after an update, sfc reported it found and repaired corrupt files!
Why do I often end up with corrupt system files after major updates?
By the way: I run the following two system commands as admministrator to check system files:
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
followed by:
sfc /scannow
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Updates pushed out on Patch Tuesdays can reasonably be expected to replace OS files. SFC compares your OS files with, what, OS files as they exist on the distribution media? If so, then it seems obvious it would find mismatches. But does that mean the new files are, in fact, corrupt? Are you not in effect undoing what the patch is intended to do?
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After the files have been repaired, I run "check for updates" and it reports I am up to date - with the repaired files! I don't have any indication that the repair will undo the patch? Difficult to be sure!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I can see how SFC could roll back an update's OS files, but Windows Update itself might not be aware the files have subsequently been replaced, and so - when checking for updates - all WU can tell you is that updates have been installed and it'll happily report everything's hunky dory.
I don't know if MS has ever fully documented what's supposed to be taking place...as such, if I have to run SFC after updating the OS...is the OS still up to date? Who knows, I avoid using SFC as its expected behavior under those circumstances is dubious at best (IMNSHO)...
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Hip shot here...
The way corruption is often detected is to compare the CRC of the known good file to the CRC sitting on disk.
In the case of an update, it's maybe reasonable that the local table of known good CRCs doesn't contain the most recent information.
It might be that what is happening isn't changing the file to fix the corruption but rather updating the CRC in the known good CRC table by fetching the latest known good CRC from an online resource.
I don't know, but this makes way more sense than windows update writing bad data to disk on the regular.
Another possibility is that you have a failing drive or drive controller.
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"Quote: In the case of an update, it's maybe reasonable that the local table of known good CRCs doesn't contain the most recent information.
I'd think the update process should handle this. When I deploy new embedded builds to products, the process includes updated CRCs. Then again, we are discussing Microsoft and Windows 11, so, YMMV.
OP - why do you do this after updates? Is there something wrong after updates? I'm typing this on a 5 yo laptop running Windows 10 Pro that has been updated so many times I've lost count. I've never run a disk check after updates.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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fantastic: [^] Quote: “In talking with the press, Joanna Aizenberg, a Bell Labs scientist and the lead author of the study, likens the brittlestar to a digital camera that builds up a picture pixel by pixel. In this exchange, one quickly loses track of whether the digital camera is a metaphor for brittlestar vision or the reverse, especially as the metaphor begins to take on a strikingly material form:
'Instead of trying to come up with new ideas and technology, we can learn from this marine creature .... The [calcitic] lenses surround the whole body, looking in all different directions and providing peripheral vision to the organism .... This is the quality we all want to incorporate in optical devices, in cameras in particular. Instead of having one lens pointing in one direction, you could have thousands of lenses pointing in different directions. This will give you perhaps a 360-degree view of the whole space.'
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Sailor posted missing (6)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nice and easy! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OK OK this has gone on long enough...
AB Sailor
SENT posted
ABSENT missing
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I just came back to take it if nobody had, and ... well done! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I got it immediately I saw it, not long after your first reply to Pete. Decided to hold off for a while.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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YAUT
Sorry for late response I was driving
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The geographical center of Croatia is in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
It's a slow day, so I just thought I'd throw that out there.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Is that why there is a city in Croatia named "Split"?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Looking at a map it is clear why that is the case.
That region has been through all sorts of warfare and carving up since 1990's.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Well, the most recent round of warfare and carving up began in the 1990s's. It wasn't exactly pacific in the first half of the 20th Century.
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The warfare in the Balkans has been going on at least since the Moslems invaded the area in the 7th or 8th century. While the Christians in Spain pushed the Moslems out in the 15th century, the Christians in the Balkans were less successful, and the war is ongoing.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So to the guy who invented zero, thanks for nothing.
****
I got fired from the bank today.
A woman asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her.
****
My dog accidentally ate a whole bag to scrabble tiles, so I took him to the vet.
No word yet.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Q: What do you call a busy waiter?
A: A server.
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Q: What do you call an idle server?
A: A waiter.
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I’ve been hearing news about this big boolean.
Huge if true.
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Q: Why was the developer unhappy at their job?
A: They wanted arrays.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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touche
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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