Windows features not working properly(corrupted)

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Hello.

My Windows had been facing some waking up issues due to changes made in BIOS, and I had to hard reset the PC when it was still in sleep state(no hybrid sleep, all saved to RAM), and I think because of that Windows files have been compromised.

Some apps are not opening(for example Windows' calculator or the photos app, and the store can't install apps) and some others are having some other issues, and I see numerus errors after a restart in Event Viewer related to "DistributedCOM" and "Service Control Manager",
such as "
DCOM got error "1084" attempting to start the service netprofm with arguments "Unavailable" in order to run the server:
{A47979D2-C419-11D9-A5B4-001185AD2B89}"
and"
The Dhcp service depends on the AFD service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning."

I don't know why it reports an attached device is not functioning, because on the face of things, everything that's attached is functioning.

Anyhow, I have ran the DISM tool and restored the image using both the online method and from an offline image which was stored on a flash media, and both were successful, and I have ran SFC scan multiple times, the first time I ran it, it was before running the DISM tool and it reported as fixing some files, but after running the DISM tool, it just reports that there is no integrity violation.

I am wondering if there is anything else that I could do beside resetting the Windows.(is there any way that I could force the Windows to replace every single Windows file?!).
Thank you very much beforehand.
 
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I turned on AHCI mode, HPET and the C-states(the PC is quite old) and the waking up issue seems to be related to the C-states as turning them back off again solved the problem while the other two are still enabled.

The hard reset didn't happen just once, but quite a few times as I turned off each C-state one by one until they were all off which in turn resolved the issue.

The externals are plugged into a different port, but still the same errors.

What I'm guessing is that there are some damage made to the registry, but I don't know.
Another possible scenario could be the disk drives(they are not old nor have any problems) because of the AHCI, but they seem fine, however after the switch to AHCI mode, they show up in "Devices and Printers" and in Taskbar and I can remove them(I have the save removal option, like a USB device), but I have in fact reverted back to IDE mode and the Event Viewer's errors as well as other problems still exist.
 
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Interesting, didn't know I could involve Startup Repair in this scenario.
I just ran it and it produced an SRT log, which says everything is honkey dory. :)

The PC was built around Vista time, yeah, 2008-ish, but it's a personal build, so it didn't have an OS.

Startup Repair diagnosis and repair log
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Last successful boot time: ‎1/‎27/‎2024 6:43:52 PM (GMT)
Number of repair attempts: 1

Session details
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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk1
Windows directory = D:\WINDOWS
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 15 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk failure diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Target OS test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Volume content check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 109 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot manager diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System boot log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Event log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Internal state check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for installed LCU
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 4484 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for installed driver updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 1391 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for pending package install
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 3218 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot status test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Root cause found:
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Boot status indicates that the OS booted successfully.

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When you turned on AHCI (SATA) mode did you also install its drivers? Any reason for switching back? I kind of guessed the age of your unit and was wondering if this is just an experiment or is it your main computer?
 
Oh, I didn't know I had to install drivers?! Well I'll get into it!

It is my main computer, I was just trying to 'optimize' it, if that is such a thing with this kind of hardware, not that I got the PC recently, but I hated to messed with the BIOS because if it works it works(the cute interface is a major factor too), and honestly, I'm proved correct, at least with these dinosaurs. 😁
 
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What concerns me is with what you cobbled together if it can satisfactorily run Windows 10. It might meet minimum requirements:
  • Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC
  • RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
  • Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS or 20 GB for 64-bit OS
  • Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
  • Display: 800 x 600
but that doesn't mean the kind of problems you're encountering don't exist.
 
It is far beyond these specs, matter of fact, there are no performance issues, I can even play games!
My apologies if I caused confusion by saying optimization, I was just trying to play with the BIOS, that would be a more accurate description.

Specs are a quad core 2.6Ghz processor(Q9600), 8GB of DDR2 RAM, 128GB of SSD, DirectX 11 GPU with 1GB of VRAM and a 1080p display.

I don't want to waste your time if you think it is pointless, I'll just get on with it and reset the Windows, but that is the thing I dread the most.
I was just wondering if there was any way to resolve it.

Thank you for your help, you could mark the post as solved(or not), whatever you see fit, I don't wanna waste anyone's time.
 
I was on build 19045.3930 and I checked and had two preview updates(one for .net) which were successfully installed and now I'm on 3996.
 

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