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System File Checker was first introduced on [[Windows 98]] as a GUI utility. It offered scanning and restoration of corrupted system files by matching the version number against a database containing the original version number of the files in a fresh Windows 98 installation. This method of file protection was basic. It determined system files by [[file extension]] and [[file path]]. It was able to restore files from the installation media or a source specified by the user. Windows 98 did not offer real-time system file protection beyond [[file attribute]]s; therefore, no preventive or reactive measure was available.

All Windows NT-based operating systems since [[Windows 2000]] introduced real-time file protection, called [[Windows File Protection]] (WFP).<ref>{{cite web

|publisher=[[Microsoft]]

|date=December 15, 2003