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Microsoft launches "Fix It"
- fuxx0r 16y agoa good start for users who dont know anything and wont spend hours of searching on technical blogs. simplifying is always the best way to handle with a large front of customer's.
- skip 16y agoThis has been a part of the MS knowledge base for at least one year. Why is this "news" now? http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/2008/11/19/welcome-to-the-fix-it-for-me-blog.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/2008/11/19/welcome...
- mapleoin 16y agowhat sort of magic is this?
- zeugma 16y agoexecuting binary from a non-secured page seems like a no brainer.
- meroliph 16y agoIf it was a secure page it would be a-okay, right?
- sp332 16y agoAt least you would know who it's from. Otherwise anyone could phish you or MITM and send you any executable they want.
- ben_straub 16y agoYou still know who it's from, just look at the signature: http://i.imgur.com/Icz56.png http://i.imgur.com/Icz56.png
- stilus 16y agoIf the https would not redirect you to the http, it would at the very least be marginally(!) better...
- mistermann 16y agoHonestly, this is a great idea for most users, although how MS hopes to pull it off is a mystery, their cryptic error messages are rarely covered at all on their official sites...wouldn't it seem reasonable that the developer that raised the error would be responsible for at least making some somewhat informational note about it? And now, they are intending to actually fix it, automatically???? lol
- teamonkey 16y agoCan someone explain in simple terms what this actually is? The page is so vague and markety I'm really confused.
- harshpotatoes 16y agoFrom what I can grok. You go around browsing some help documents on the MS website. On some of the documents, there is a "Fix it" button. You click it, and it basically automates what's in the help document.
- jimbokun 16y agoYou just did a better job than Microsoft's copy writers, and they didn't even pay you.
- emanuer 16y agoNo magic at all... I had my "monthly bluescreen of death" but the "Fixit tool" did not recognize the error. It just told me about a crashing Internet Explorer. This is interesting because I never used my Internet explorer. Unfortunately my system is running smoothly for the rest, so I can't evaluate the ability of the Automated troubleshooters. 2 hours of usage and not impressed so far.
- chadgeidel 16y agoFWIW - many programs use IE's layout engine for their display functionality. I don't know if it does any more, but Quickbooks used to. The only way I found this out is when I turned off images in IE Quickbooks failed to display about half of its UI.
- riffic 16y agoI'm glad I'll never have to run this.
- acg 16y agoIt seems terrible to me that users should even need tools like this. Why should they have to care about this stuff? Gone are the days when every computer user is a hobbyist.
- jimbokun 16y agoThere's always iPad.
- harshpotatoes 16y agoI think those days ended a long time ago. When did computers become mainstream? the 90's? 80s? Gone are also the days of grunge and being able to perform your own car maintenance. Also gone are the days of subsistence farming. oh well. Adapt or die.
- teamonkey 16y agoMy hobby is developing for computers but my hobby isn't maintaining them. It's not that I can't, I just don't enjoy it. I find it a chore like washing dishes. I'd rather have a dishwasher to do all that stuff so I have the time to do what I enjoy.
- icey 16y agoThis has to be at least an incremental improvement. MSDN's knowledge base has the worst case of linkrot I can think of on the internet.
- Roridge 16y agoIs it "install Linux"?