Category Windows Administration

Guides, Troubleshooting, Windows, Windows Administration, Windows command line

sfc /scannow in Windows: what it does, when it works, and when it doesn’t

System File Checker — sfc — scans Windows protected system files and replaces damaged or missing ones from a cached copy. It is usually the first repair tool you reach for when Windows starts behaving unexpectedly: random crashes, applications that…

Zaur Bahramov
May 7, 2026

Guides, Powershell, Troubleshooting, Windows Administration

How to monitor Windows Server performance from PowerShell using Get-Counter

Performance Monitor gives you graphs. Get-Counter gives you data — in the terminal, in variables, in CSV files, in scripts that run unattended at 3am. It reads the same performance counter infrastructure that PerfMon uses, but from PowerShell, which means…

Zaur Bahramov
May 6, 2026