Tools: Fix It
When you work from home and generally on your own
and something goes wrong with your computer what do
you do? Okay, screaming for your kids to come “NOW!”
is one thing - if you still have children at home. Next is
the techie neighbour but you might not want to have
them know your level of computer expertise. You can
resort to that good pal who is always there for you
except when they are working – and right now when the
glitch happens, they are working and you don’t want to
interrupt their day with your problem. What to do?
The answer is you must search for it. If a warning or pop up happened advising you about “your
properties are preventing…” or something else preventing something from happening you can
go online and type into the search box exactly what the pop-up stated - and a dozen solutions
will surface. One tool I found was Microsoft’s Fix It.
Be sure to download the Fix
It tool now, don’t wait. The
guy with the wrench is the
icon and he’ll be resident on
your desktop. When you
have a hint of trouble – click
the icon and see what
transpires.
http://support.microsoft.com/fixit/
I use Outlook 2013 and for some reason every so often I cannot click on links in my emails. A pop up
advises me that my “policies…” are “…preventing…” – so I click on Fix It and the computer will reset /
restore to a date when Outlook was working perfectly. This takes a matter of minutes. You restart your
computer and you are back in business.
There are many fix it downloads, so be careful. They appear to be free however after they have
downloaded and scanned your computer and changed registries etc., the price pops up. Now you either
accept or not. If not, you are warned that you must now remove the download. When that happens you
see tons of files being deleted and if you’re not tech savvy those files look like the ones you need and want
and now they are being deleted. It’s a scary thing to watch. Look for Fix It and start there. ?
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