Windows system health and monitoring

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Software update

REM check for all updates
winget upgrade

REM update everything
winget upgrade --

REM update particular app, use 'winget upgrade' to get the ID
winget upgrade <ID>

Check system health

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup

sfc /scannow

Chkdsk C: /f /r

Remove service

sc delete servicename

Remove drivers

pnputil /enum-drivers
pnputil /delete-driver oemXXX.inf

Power config

Powertrace

You can get a power trace by opening an admin CMD and doing:

powercfg /energy /trace /d c:\temp /duration 120

Replacing C:\temp with a folder of choice (must exist already) and 120 with the duration you want to trace in seconds. Keep track of the time(s) that the monitor comes on.

This will create an .etl file you can open in Windows Performance Analyzer. Look at Device Dstate around the times the monitor turned on and see if there are any D-state transitions from your display.

This will at least tell you if Windows is responsible for the screen turning on or if it's something from the hardware.

Performance Analyzer app is in MS Store.

Standby modes support

powercfg -a

Power requests

powercfg -requests

powercfg -SYSTEMSLEEPDIAGNOSTICS

Builds nice graphs with reports of power requests during system idle

Keyboard locale

0809:00020409
UK : US International

Windows apps re-register

Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

and maximum version

Get-appxpackage -packageType bundle |% {add-appxpackage -register -disabledevelopmentmode ($_.installlocation + "\appxmetadata\appxbundlemanifest.xml")}

$bundlefamilies = (get-appxpackage -packagetype Bundle).packagefamilyname

get-appxpackage -packagetype main |? {-not ($bundlefamilies -contains $_.packagefamilyname)} |% {add-appxpackage -register -disabledevelopmentmode ($_.installlocation + "\appxmanifest.xml")}

Remove Windows app

Remove Web Media Extensions

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WebmediaExtensions | Remove-AppxPackage

Remove protected folders

takeown /F "Z:\Program Files" /A /R /D Y
icacls "Z:\Program Files" /T /grant administrators:F
rd /s /q "Z:\Program Files"

AMD chipset drivers

Amd drivers download
this seems to be more actual than one on the motherboard download page

PSP - Device (SecurityDevices) driver
SMBus - System management bus - installed by default
PCI - installed by default
GPIO - installed by default

Enable Gpedit.exe in Windows 10/11 Home edition

Using CMD as Admin

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" )

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO ( DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F" )

Disable automatic driver updates

Using gpedit.msc as admin

Browse the following path:Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
On the right side, double-click the Do not include drivers with Windows Update policy. Set to Enable. Apply

Source

Add

reg.exe add -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /f /ve

Remove

???

reg.exe delete -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}

WMIC

Get windows system info using WMI

To get a brief overview of an alias

wmic <alias> list brief

Full alias overview can be displayed:

wmic <alias> list full

Get Information About Operating System

wmic OS get Caption,CSDVersion,OSArchitecture,Version

Get Information About BIOS

wmic BIOS get Manufacturer,Name,SMBIOSBIOSVersion,Version

Get Serial Numbers of Hard Drives

wmic path win32_physicalmedia get SerialNumber

to get rid of EdgeWebView process, that east too much VRAM

First disable Widgets and Teams from starting up
Then go to registry Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3078088237-2142244905-4044066433-1002\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Dsh and set IsPrelaunchEnabled to 0

Winsat

winsat assesses various features, capabilities, and attributes of a computer

winsat formal

Formal - Runs a set of pre-defined assessments and saves the data in an XML file in %systemroot%/\performance/\winsat/\datastore

Bad memory

Enable memory blacklisting

bcdedit /set {badmemory} badmemoryaccess no

Event 1001 : Windows removed bad memory regions from this PC.
Bad memory found, to see what memory has been marked by the OS as bad:

bcdedit /enum {badmemory}

Alternatively, you may use the RAMMap tool from Microsoft

To clear the list of page numbers that have been blacklisted

bcdedit /deletevalue {badmemory} badmemorylist

Disable specific driver updates