Avoid sfc /scannow on Windows 8/2012

Symptom: your Windows 8/Windows 2012 system locks and crashes after installing some updates

We are still collecting information and data on this issue, but here’s a word of advice:

  • Wrong solution: you should NOT use the sfc /scannow command
  • Correct solution: you should try to redo the tokens.dat file per KB 2736303.

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