How to launch SFC programatically on Windows Vista/7/8?

Question

I\'ve been trying to solve the problem that Chris Iverson was having in this other Stackoverflow question.

I want to launch SFC (the System File

Answer 1

With all the help here I ended up with this and it worked fine on 8.1 x64. Thank you all very much!

    ...
    using System.Diagnostics;
    ...

    private void button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string docs = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
        string snat = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("windir") + @"\sysnative\sfc.exe";

        Process a = new Process();
          a.StartInfo.FileName = snat;
          a.StartInfo.Arguments = "/SCANNOW";
          a.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
          a.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
          a.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
          a.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        a.Start();

        string output = a.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
        a.WaitForExit();

        using (StreamWriter outfile = new StreamWriter(docs + @"\Testoutput.txt"))
        {
            outfile.Write(output);
        }

        MessageBox.Show("DONE!");
    }