Microsoft Launches “Fix It Center”

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Microsoft has just launched the Fix It Center (beta), a downloadable tool combined with an online service that makes it easy solve Windows technical issues. Might be something to pass on to your friends and relatives so they’ll quit calling you for tech support. ;)
 
In a lot of KB sites, Microsoft had the "Microsoft Fix It" buttons for awhile now. This looks like a round up of all of the available Fix It KB's. I'm definitely bookmarking this. It might save me a lot of time here and there.
 
I also caught this at Lifehacker this morning, but I haven't been able to take a look to see what all it can fix.
 
Azhar is right. A lot of the registry fixes are nice to have in a nice batch that Microsoft gives you. Having all of these in one little screen will be great.

Sometimes I noticed that the Fix It button wouldn't allow me to download the fix for my OS even though I'm using the right OS for the fix. Hopefully Fix It Center works a little better since it's natively installed.
 
Wonder if GeekSquad will charge someone to run this on their system?
 
i think its neat. but as as a remote tech support, its to big of a hassle when time is an issue. if it was truely portable and didnt require an install would be nice. you can work around the reboot (just dont reboot lol). obviously my own tools are for IT users while this is designed for IT and home users which is a benefit.

as a tech your better off getting the specific drivers compatible with their software. this requires knowing which pcl, ps, etc driver works with their "special" software for financial/clinical/industry apps etc.

i just make a portable back of tools:
my everyone cleaner script to clean each tempfolder on the machine
dialafix for xp/win2k machines
ccleaner portable
hijackthis portable
hijackfree portable
some tweak reg keys
exe files not working fix it tools
rougefix script
hostsxpert-mod hosts file /repair it
network repair script
-some other crap all compressed to one 3mb file that self extracts
 
Definitely not for non-technical users. I decided to try a few tests. Most found nothing wrong. It did decide that I could disable some start up programs. I opted for Intel's IAAnotif.exe. Afterwards, I ran it again to see if I could reenable it at startup. No dice.

Yes, I can do it via msconfig, but most users have never heard of it, and they'd have no idea how to get that. I have no idea what it'd change by default....I'm not that brave.
 
ccleaner portable is nice for disabling startup items.
hijackfree as well (along with deleting/finding related reg keys)
 
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