How Fixyfier Works

The window

The rail on the left lists the twelve screens above, in that order, and pins License, About and Help to the bottom so they are in the same place at every window size. The button at the top collapses and expands it.

The top bar holds the version, buttons for the website, the Microsoft Store listing, GitHub, rating and donating, the Theme and Language pickers, the search box, the Support button (it reads Supporter once the add-on is owned) and the Confirmation switch.

Cards, switches and choices

Most tasks are a card with a short description and a Run button. A setting with two states is a switch rather than two cards, because a switch can tell you which state this PC is actually in: the position is read from Windows, never assumed. If Fixyfier cannot read it, the card says State unknown and offers two plainly labelled buttons instead of a switch that might be wrong. A setting with more than two states shows one button per state.

Advanced tasks and the way back

Tasks marked Advanced make deeper changes or use powerful tools such as DISM and SFC. Before one runs, Fixyfier shows the exact command and asks Windows for a restore point — a safeguard you can turn off with the Create a Restore Point Before Advanced Tasks switch on the Dashboard. Windows keeps at most one restore point per day, so this usually costs nothing. If System Protection is off, or Windows cannot make a point just now, Fixyfier says so and asks whether to continue without one; decline because protection is off and it opens the System Protection page for you.

While the Confirmation switch in the top bar is on, Fixyfier also asks you to confirm before an Advanced task. A change that cannot be undone asks either way.

The run window

A run opens its own window with the output in it. That window is not modal, so you can put it aside and keep using the app. It has Copy for the whole log, Stop while a command is still running (it ends the whole run, not just the current step), and, when a change only takes effect after a restart, an offer to Restart Now. A run that prints nothing says so and shows no empty box. The three deep repairs — Repair the Windows Image, Repair System Files and Check the Disk for Errors — run in their own console window instead, because they draw progress a text box cannot show.

Five tasks that empty folders — Clear Your Temporary Files, Clear Windows’ Temporary Files, Empty the Recycle Bin, Delete Recent Items History and Clear Microsoft Outlook Cache — offer a Dry Run, which lists what would be deleted without deleting it. Extra Cleaning Rules has the same thing under the name Preview.

Search

Press Ctrl+K, or simply start typing on any screen, and the search box ranks tasks across every category. It understands symptoms as well as names, so no sound finds the audio repair and blue screen finds the guide on crash dumps. Matching tasks come first, then up to three matching Troubleshooting Guides. The rest of the keyboard:

Key	What it does
←	Go to the rail, from any screen
↑ ↓	Move through the rail, including License, About and Help
→, Enter, Space	Open the focused rail item, or run the focused card
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F	Focus the search box
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+H, Ctrl+L	About, Help, License
Esc	Clear the search

Unknown is an answer

Anything Fixyfier could not read says Unknown rather than guessing. A Dashboard row, a drive size or a switch position that cannot be read is never shown as green, as zero or as Off. An app that invents a Defender status is worse than one that admits it could not read it.

The notification area

While Fixyfier is running, an icon sits in the notification area. Clicking it opens the window. Right-clicking offers Open Fixyfier, Create System Restore Point, Your Routines (one entry per saved routine), Open MyTools Folder and Exit. Anything started from the tray shows the window first, so its progress is never hidden behind other windows.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the first thing Fixyfier shows. It answers four questions: what is this machine, is anything running hot, is anything actually wrong, and what should I do about it. Nothing on it is a nag — there is no score out of a hundred and no red banner for things that are fine. A row goes amber when it is genuinely worth acting on, and is otherwise grey and quiet.

This PC

The name of the PC, the Windows edition, build and architecture, then Processor (with physical cores and threads), Memory, Graphics, Signed In As, Uptime, Last Boot and Installed On. Only rows Fixyfier could actually read are shown. Copy copies the lot, ready to paste into a support thread.

Three live gauges

Processor load, Memory used of total, and free space on the Windows drive. A gauge stays on the brand colour under 75%, turns amber above it and red above 90% — a PC at 55% is not in trouble and is not coloured as if it were.

System Health

One row each, with a button beside it where there is something to do:

• Windows Activation — Activated or Not Activated. Open goes to the Activation page.
• Real-time Protection — Whether Microsoft Defender is protecting this PC right now. Open goes to Windows Security.
• Windows Firewall — On, Off, or Partly On when only some network profiles are protected. Open goes to the firewall settings.
• System Protection — Whether Windows may make restore points here. Open goes to the System Protection page.
• Last Restore Point — When it was taken and by whom, or None Yet. Create asks Windows for one now.
• Restart Pending — Nothing Waiting, or A Restart Is Waiting with a Restart button.
• Secure Boot — On or Off.

Refresh re-reads every row without leaving the screen. Below them is the Create a Restore Point Before Advanced Tasks switch described above.

Quick Actions

• Fix — The multi-step repair described under Fix & Repair.
• Update Apps — The update picker described under System Tools.
• Block Ads & Telemetry — Turns off every advertising, suggestion and diagnostic-data setting Fixyfier knows about, in one pass. The confirmation lists the exact commands, in order; each setting can be turned back on individually from Security & Privacy, or in Windows Settings. It also disables seven scheduled tasks that collect usage data and have no switch of their own. Most of it takes effect after a sign-out or restart, so the run offers one. Windows Spotlight’s lock-screen pictures are deliberately left alone — only the promotional overlay on them is switched off — and Location Services is a separate switch that this does not touch.
• Malware Removal Tool — Opens Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool, which scans for a specific list of widespread threats. It is not a replacement for real-time protection.
• Reset to Default Settings — Described under Settings, Privacy & Reset.

Fix & Repair

Fix

At the top of the category, Fix runs several repair steps in one pass and lets you choose which. They run in this order because clearing the junk first means the repairs are not scanning files that are about to be deleted. The first four are quick and safe and are ticked by default; the last three are thorough and can take a while.

1. Clear Your Temporary Files — Empties your own temp folder. Nothing here is anything Windows or an app still needs.
2. Clear Windows’ Temporary Files — Empties the system temp folder. Files still in use are skipped rather than forced.
3. Flush the DNS Cache — Makes Windows look addresses up again. Fixes sites that load on your phone but not on this PC.
4. Open Disk Cleanup — Opens Windows’ own cleanup tool so you choose what goes.
5. Repair the Windows Image — DISM checks the component store Windows repairs itself from. Ten to thirty minutes, and it needs the internet.
6. Repair System Files — SFC compares every protected system file against the image and replaces the damaged ones. Run it after DISM, not before.
7. Check the Disk — Scans the drive for errors and reports them. This one only looks; it changes nothing.

Your Routines

Under Fix are your own Routines: a named list of tasks that runs in order with one click. Build one for the checks you do every month and you never have to remember them again. You can keep up to 12 routines of up to 24 tasks each. Only tasks that run to completion on their own can be steps — anything that opens a window and waits for you, and the one-click launchers, are left out, because a routine that stops halfway to ask a question is not a routine. Scripts from your MyTools folder can be steps too. Saved routines also appear in the notification-area menu, and a step whose task no longer exists — a script you deleted, say — is skipped and reported rather than silently dropped.

Repair Windows itself

• Repair the Windows ImageAdvanced — DISM repairs the component store, the image Windows repairs everything else from.
• Repair System FilesAdvanced — SFC scans every protected system file and replaces the corrupted or missing ones.
• Check the Disk for ErrorsAdvanced — A read-only scan for file system errors and metadata inconsistencies. It neither locks the volume nor repairs anything.
• Fix Windows AppsAdvanced — Re-registers every non-framework AppX package. This is the fix for broken Windows apps, a Microsoft Store that will not open and a misbehaving Start menu.
• Rebuild the Icon CacheAdvanced — Deletes the file Windows caches every icon in and lets it build a fresh one. The fix for blank, wrong or duplicated icons. Explorer restarts, so open windows close.
• Rebuild the Search IndexAdvanced — Indexes this PC again from scratch, for a Start menu or File Explorer that has stopped finding files it should. Indexing then runs in the background and can take hours on a full drive.
• Activate Self-healing ModeAdvanced — Lets Windows detect and repair system problems by itself after a reboot. Works best with Quick Machine Recovery enabled first.
• Quick Machine RecoveryAdvancedSwitch — Lets Windows repair itself from the recovery environment when it will not start, using a fix downloaded from Microsoft. On a PC that cannot boot, that can save a reinstall. Reading this setting and changing it both need a recent build of Windows 11, and the change takes effect after a restart. On many PCs the state cannot be read — the recovery environment keeps it, not Windows — and the card says so.

Diagnostics

• Test Your Memory — Windows Memory Diagnostic, which tests the RAM for faults.
• Check Graphics and Sound — DxDiag, the DirectX report on graphics, sound and the rest of the multimedia stack.

Quick fixes for devices and the desktop

• Fix Bluetooth Issues — Restarts the Bluetooth service. For frozen connections, unresponsive devices or a greyed-out Bluetooth toggle.
• Fix Audio & Sound Issues — Restarts the Windows Audio service. For distorted or stuttering sound, or headphones and speakers that have gone silent.
• Fix Hardware Detection Issues — Rescans for hardware changes, which brings back a USB drive, monitor or webcam that is plugged in but not showing up.
• Restart File Explorer — For an unresponsive desktop or taskbar, without restarting the PC.
• Restart Print Spooler — Clears stuck print jobs and gets printing working again.

Windows’ own troubleshooters

Each of these opens the matching Windows troubleshooter, which diagnoses the problem and applies its own fixes.

• Audio Troubleshooter — Playback, sound output and audio devices.
• BITS Troubleshooter — The Background Intelligent Transfer Service, which downloads in the background for Windows Update and others.
• Bluetooth Troubleshooter — Pairing and connecting devices.
• Camera Troubleshooter — The camera and its connection.
• Network & Internet Troubleshooter — Network adapters, Ethernet and Wi-Fi.
• Printer Troubleshooter — Printing, printer connections and drivers.
• Program Compatibility Troubleshooter — Older programs on newer Windows.
• Video Playback Troubleshooter — Video output and playback devices.
• Windows Media Player Troubleshooter — Playback and the media library.
• Windows Update Troubleshooter — Downloading and installing updates.

Windows Update

• Reset Windows UpdateAdvanced — Stops the update services, renames the two folders Windows Update keeps its downloads and signatures in, and starts them again. The standard fix for updates that keep failing with the same error. The old folders are kept, not deleted.
• Clear Windows Update Cache — Deletes the cached update files, which resolves some update errors and reclaims the space.

Logs

Each of these writes a text file to your Desktop — system_log.txt, application_log.txt or security_log.txt — exported from the matching Windows event log.

• Save System Logs — Windows itself: drivers, services and hardware events.
• Save Application Logs — Events and errors reported by installed programs.
• Save Security Logs — Sign-ins and other audited security events.

Cleanup & Optimize

Switches

• HibernateAdvancedSwitch — Saves everything in memory to disk so the PC can be switched fully off and come back where you left it. Off reclaims a file roughly the size of your RAM, and also turns off Fast Startup.
• SysMainSwitch — Pre-loads the apps you open most so they start faster. Turning it off can help an older PC with a slow hard drive, and does very little on an SSD.

Free up space

• Clear Your Temporary Files — Your own temp folder.
• Clear Windows’ Temporary Files — The system temp folder. Files still in use are skipped.
• Disk Cleanup — Windows’ own tool: system cache, logs and temporary files, with you choosing what goes.
• Empty the Recycle Bin — Everything in it, for every drive.
• Delete the Previous Windows InstallationAdvanced — Removes Windows.old, which is usually the largest single thing on the drive after a feature update. Going back to the previous version is no longer possible afterwards.

Drives

• Defragment and Optimize Drives — Windows’ own optimiser, which defragments a hard disk and trims an SSD.
• Securely Wipe Free SpaceAdvanced — Overwrites what is left of deleted files on a drive you choose, so they cannot be recovered.
• Manage Disk PartitionsAdvanced — Opens DiskPart, the command-line tool for drives, partitions and volumes.

History and caches

• Delete Recent Items History — The list of files and folders you opened recently.
• Delete Explorer Address Bar History — What you have typed into File Explorer’s address bar.
• Delete Run Box History — What you have typed into the Run dialog.
• Delete Temporary Internet Files — The cached internet files Windows keeps.
• Clear Thumbnail Cache — Deletes the cached thumbnails; Windows rebuilds them, which also refreshes folders showing the wrong preview.
• Clear Microsoft Store Cache — The fix for downloads and updates that stall in the Store.
• Clear Microsoft Outlook Cache — For Outlook running slowly or showing stale data.
• Clear Microsoft Teams Cache — For Teams performance problems and sync errors.

Restore points

• Create System Restore Point — Asks Windows to take one now, so there is a way back before you change anything. Windows keeps at most one per day.
• Delete System Restore PointsAdvanced — Removes every restore point on this PC and reclaims the space. There is then nothing to roll back to.

Extra Cleaning Rules

Extra Cleaning Rules reads winapp2.ini, a community-maintained list of cleaning rules for programs Windows knows nothing about, kept up to date by the people who use those programs. It is published by the winapp2 project under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, and the credit and licence are printed on the picker itself.

• The list is fetched only when you press Run, is read into memory, and is never saved to this PC.
• Only rules for programs actually installed here are shown, grouped by section, with a search box. Nothing is ticked for you.
• Preview lists everything the selected rules would remove, item by item, before anything goes; the confirmation then asks once more.
• Rules using instructions Fixyfier does not implement are skipped and counted rather than guessed at. The result reports how many items were removed and how much space that was, and how many could not be — usually because a program still had them open.
• With no internet connection the download fails cleanly and says so. To use it offline, put your own copy of Winapp2.ini in Documents\Fixyfier and Fixyfier reads that instead of the network, without ever creating or updating it.
• It cannot be a step in a Routine, because it needs a person to read the list.

Files & Folders

Each of these asks which file, folder or drive it applies to, shows the command, and then runs it.

• Lock File or FolderAdvanced — Restricts access by tightening the permissions on it.
• Unlock File or FolderAdvanced — Puts that access back.
• Hide File or Folder — Sets the Hidden attribute.
• Unhide File or Folder — Clears it again.
• Force Delete File or FolderAdvanced — Deletes something that will not go by ordinary means.
• Repair File or Folder PermissionsAdvanced — Takes ownership and resets the permissions, restoring full control.
• Unhide Everything on a DriveAdvanced — Clears the Hidden, System and Read-only attributes across a drive you choose. This is the fix after malware, a mishandled USB stick or an accidental attribute change has made files vanish.

Installed Apps

Everything installed on this PC — Store apps and desktop programs in one list, each with its publisher, version, type and size. Sizes are what each program recorded for itself; a dash means it never recorded one, which is common and not a problem. The list is read from the registry and the Store’s package list, never from Windows Installer’s slow inventory, so it opens in a moment; icons fill in a few at a time so the list never stalls. Runtime packages that are not really apps — the Windows App Runtime, the Visual C++ and .NET Native runtimes and WinUI — are left out.

The list

• Search by name or publisher, filter by All, Store or Desktop, and sort.
• Every row has an Uninstall button and a More Actions menu. For a Store app the menu offers Repair (Windows re-registers the app and leaves its data alone) and Reset (the app goes back to how it was on a fresh install — settings, sign-in and everything it saved are deleted, and this cannot be undone). Open File Location appears when the location is known, and Copy Details is always there.
• Uninstalling a desktop program runs that program’s own uninstaller, exactly as Windows would; Fixyfier deletes nothing itself. Uninstalling a Store app removes it for you, and its data goes with it.
• A row marked Protected is one Windows does not allow to be removed, or a desktop program that registered no uninstaller, so there is nothing to run.
• Select switches on a checkbox per row and an Uninstall Selected button. The confirmation lists what will go, in order; desktop programs each open their own uninstaller and wait for you before the next starts.
• Refresh re-reads the list after an uninstall finishes.

Built-in Apps

Above the list is a switch for each of the apps Windows preinstalls and then hides — the ones Settings either cannot remove or that come back after the next feature update. The switch position is read from Windows, never assumed: an app that is not installed simply shows as Off.

• Turning one off removes it for your account only and leaves its files in place, which is what makes turning it back on work without a download — Windows registers it again from the copy already here.
• For Every Account also removes it from every account on this PC and from the copy new accounts are set up from, so Windows does not put it back. Turning it back on then needs the Store.
• OneDrive goes through its own installer rather than as a Store app, and is closed first so the uninstaller actually runs. Removing it deletes nothing already in your OneDrive folder, but files that exist only in the cloud stop appearing there.

The eight explained apps are OneDrive, Copilot, Widgets, Xbox Game Bar, Microsoft Teams (the personal one Windows installs, not the work version), Quick Assist, Feedback Hub and Get Started. Under them, named by Windows in your own language: Cortana, Outlook (new), Mail and Calendar, Phone Link, People, Skype, Family Safety, News, Weather, Maps, Solitaire Collection, Xbox, Xbox Live, Clipchamp, Films and TV, Media Player, Sound Recorder, Microsoft To Do, OneNote, Dev Home, Paint 3D, 3D Viewer and Mixed Reality Portal — 31 in all.

Network & Connectivity

Look before you change anything

Nothing in this group changes anything; it only reports. Test Connection and Trace the Route ask you for an address first — a website name or an IP address — and show the command before it runs. Anything typed there is checked against what a hostname or IP address may contain, so nothing else can reach the command line.

• Test Connection — Sends a few packets to an address you choose and reports whether they came back and how long they took. The quickest way to tell a connection that is down from one that is merely slow.
• Trace the Route — Shows every hop between this PC and an address you choose, and how long each takes. The hop where the times jump or the replies stop is where the trouble is.
• Active Connections — Every connection this PC has open and every port it is listening on, with the process id behind each. This is what to read when something is talking to the internet and you want to know what.
• Wi-Fi Details — Signal strength, radio band, channel and link speed. Windows only shares these while Location services are on — a privacy setting only you can change, so if it is off Fixyfier says so and offers to open the Location settings page. A desktop with no wireless adapter will say so too.
• IP Configuration — Address, subnet mask, gateway and DNS servers for every adapter.

Fix the connection

• Flush DNS — Clears the DNS cache so Windows looks addresses up again.
• Release & Renew IP — Asks the router for an address again, which clears a conflict or a lease that has gone stale.
• Reset TCP/IPAdvanced — Puts the TCP/IP stack back to its defaults.
• Winsock ResetAdvanced — Puts the Winsock catalogue back to its defaults, which is the fix when something has inserted itself into the network stack.
• Reset Network ConfigurationsAdvanced — All of the above together, returning every network setting to default.

Tools and features

• Remote Desktop Connection — Opens the Remote Desktop client.
• Telnet ClientAdvancedSwitch — The telnet command, useful for checking whether a port on another machine is open. Off by default in Windows; changing it takes effect after a restart.

Security & Privacy

Protection

• Windows FirewallAdvancedSwitch — Filters what is allowed in over the network. Leave this on unless you are testing something specific, and turn it back on straight afterwards.
• Smart App ControlAdvanced — Windows blocks apps it does not recognise as trusted. It has three states — Off, Evaluation and On — so it shows one button per state instead of a switch. Evaluation is the mode a new install starts in: Windows watches how you use the PC and then turns it on or off for you. Turning it off is permanent — Windows will not let it back on without reinstalling — so Fixyfier warns you first, and the change takes effect after a restart.
• Malware Removal Tool — Opens Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool, which scans for a specific list of widespread threats. It is not a replacement for real-time protection.
• Open Windows Security — Defender’s own app: scans, protection settings and threat history.
• Open BitLocker — Drive encryption and recovery keys.

Ads, suggestions and diagnostic data

Twenty-two switches, one per setting, each read from Windows so it shows the real position. Every one is a documented Windows setting or Group Policy you could reach by hand, and every one can be turned back on. Block Ads & Telemetry on the Dashboard turns all of them off in one pass.

• Lock Screen AdsSwitch — Tips, promotions and app suggestions on the lock screen.
• Lock screen promosSwitch — The tips, facts and adverts laid over the lock screen picture. Off keeps the pictures and drops the text.
• Suggested Apps in StartSwitch — Apps offered in the Start menu that you have not installed.
• Start menu recommendationsSwitch — The Recommended section at the bottom of the Windows 11 Start menu, app suggestions included.
• Account notices in StartSwitch — Prompts to finish setting up or back up your Microsoft account.
• Suggestions in Settings and StartSwitch — Recommended content in Settings and Start, most of which points at something to install.
• Automatically installed appsSwitch — Windows silently installing promoted apps and games. Off also stops it putting them back.
• Taskbar Pop-up AdsSwitch — Promotional notifications raised from the taskbar.
• Ads in File ExplorerSwitch — Promotions and app suggestions in File Explorer’s sync provider notifications.
• Welcome experienceSwitch — The full-screen page after an update, suggesting Microsoft services.
• Tips and tricksSwitch — Notifications offering suggestions about Windows as you use it.
• Search highlightsSwitch — The illustrated topics of the day in the search box and results.
• Web results in searchSwitch — Bing results mixed into Start menu search. Off leaves search looking at this PC only.
• Personalized AdsSwitch — The advertising ID apps use to tailor ads to what you do here. Off means you still see ads, just not ones picked from your activity.
• Tailored experiencesSwitch — Microsoft using your diagnostic data to personalise tips, adverts and recommendations.
• Diagnostic DataSwitch — The usage data Windows sends to Microsoft. Off sets it to the minimum Windows allows; some of it cannot be switched off at all.
• Telemetry servicesAdvancedSwitch — The two background services that collect and upload diagnostic data. Off disables them, effective after a restart.
• Activity historySwitch — Windows recording what you open and sending that history to your Microsoft account.
• App launch trackingSwitch — Windows counting which apps you open to rank the Most used list. Off empties that list.
• Typing and inking dataSwitch — Windows learning from what you type and write by hand.
• Feedback requestsSwitch — How often Windows interrupts to ask what you think of it. Off means never.
• Error reportingSwitch — Reports sent to Microsoft when a program crashes. Off stops the reports and the dialogs.

Location

• Location ServicesSwitch — Whether apps and Windows itself may use this PC’s location. Off blocks it for every app at once. Wi-Fi Details in Network & Connectivity needs this on, and Block Ads & Telemetry leaves it alone.

System Tools

Switches

• Short Right-click MenuSwitch — Windows 11’s short context menu with “Show more options” at the bottom. Off brings back the full classic menu. Explorer restarts either way.
• Print Screen Opens SnippingSwitch — Whether Print Screen opens the snipping overlay instead of copying the whole screen.
• Hyper-VAdvancedSwitch — Windows’ own virtualization platform. It has to be off for VirtualBox and some emulators to run properly, and on for WSL 2 and Windows Sandbox. Needs a restart.
• DirectPlayAdvancedSwitch — An old DirectX component some games from the 1990s and 2000s still need. Harmless to leave off until a game asks for it. Needs a restart.

About this PC

• Check Specifications — Windows edition and architecture, hostname, user, BIOS serial number, boot time and uptime, processor and cores, memory and disks.
• System Information — Windows’ own fuller report on the operating system, the hardware and the network.
• View User Information — The current account’s group memberships, privileges and security identifiers.
• List Installed Drivers — Every installed driver, with its name and version.
• Check Drive Health — Asks each physical drive what it thinks of itself: SSD or hard disk, size, and the health it reports. Nothing is changed. A drive reporting anything other than Healthy is worth backing up today.
• List Startup Programs — Everything set to start with Windows, where each is registered and what it actually runs. Nothing is changed — this is the list to read before deciding what to turn off in Task Manager.

Power

• Power Efficiency Report — Watches the PC for a minute and writes Windows’ own energy report to your Desktop, listing what is keeping it awake and what is wasting battery. Changes nothing.
• Generate Battery Report — Windows’ battery report: capacity now against capacity when new, and how the charge has behaved recently.
• Enable Ultimate Performance — Adds and selects the Ultimate Performance power plan, which trades power for latency.
• Restore Power Plan — Puts the power plans back to their defaults.
• Schedule Shutdown — Shuts the PC down at a time you choose.
• Cancel Scheduled Shutdown — Calls off a shutdown already scheduled.
• Restart Into BIOSAdvanced — Restarts straight into the firmware settings, with no key to catch on the way.

Windows configuration

• Enable Super Settings — Creates the folder sometimes called God Mode: every Control Panel and system setting in one list.
• Update Group Policy — Applies pending group policy changes now instead of at the next refresh.
• Reset Secure ChannelAdvanced — Repairs the trust relationship between this PC and its domain. Only relevant on a domain-joined machine.

Update & Maintain

• Update Apps — Asks the Windows Package Manager (winget) what has an update waiting and shows the list with a checkbox per app. Tick what to update; Hold keeps an app on the version it is on and stops winget offering it again. The updates then run in a real terminal window, because winget draws progress bars a text box cannot show. If nothing is waiting, or winget’s list cannot be read, Fixyfier offers to let winget check and update everything in its own window instead.
• Open Windows Update — Windows’ own update page.
• Open Windows Activation — The activation page, for a licence or a product key.

Windows Tools

Twenty Windows utilities, each one click away. None of them change anything by themselves; they open the tool.

• System Summary — The full hardware, software and configuration report.
• Open Windows’ App Settings — Windows’ own page for uninstalling apps.
• Open Microsoft Store — Apps, games and updates.
• Open Task Manager — Running processes, performance and resource use.
• Open Device Manager — Hardware devices and their drivers.
• Open Disk Management — Drives, partitions and volumes: format, create, delete, resize.
• Open the Services Console — Windows’ own service manager.
• Open Computer Management — Disk Management, Event Viewer and Device Manager under one roof.
• Open System Configuration — MSConfig: boot settings, services and startup.
• Open Task Scheduler — Scheduled tasks, Windows’ own and yours.
• Open Event Viewer — System logs, errors and event detail.
• Open Reliability Monitor — A timeline of crashes, errors and updates, which is the quickest way to see when trouble started.
• Open Performance Monitor — Processor, memory, disk and network over time.
• Open Resource Monitor — The same four, live and per process.
• Open Registry Editor — The Windows registry.
• Open Group Policy Editor — Local group policy.
• Open Advanced User Accounts — Netplwiz: user accounts and automatic sign-in.
• Open System Restore — Roll this PC back to a restore point.
• Open Command Prompt — An elevated prompt.
• Open PowerShell — An elevated PowerShell.

Services

Every Windows service, with the description Windows itself provides, in the language your Windows is set to. Fixyfier does not recommend disabling anything and never will: nobody can know from the outside what a given machine needs. What it does instead is show you what each service is, what will stop along with it, and the exact command before it runs.

• Each row shows the display name, the status (Running or Stopped), the startup type and the account it runs as. Search by name or description, and filter by All, Running, Stopped, Automatic or Disabled.
• The row menu offers Start, Stop and Restart, a Startup Type of Automatic, Automatic (Delayed Start), Manual or Disabled, and Copy Details.
• Before a service is stopped or disabled, Fixyfier looks up what depends on it and lists those services in the confirmation under These will stop with it.
• Three safety levels apply to the action, not the row. Protected services — the ones Windows needs in order to start, sign you in or be managed at all — cannot be stopped or disabled from here, and the row says why. Risky ones can be, with the specific consequence named first: that sound stops working everywhere, that Windows Update stops, that Wi-Fi stops, that programs can no longer ask for administrator rights. Everything else carries the standing caution.
• Every change goes through the same path as an Advanced task: the command is shown first and Windows is asked for a restore point.

Scripts

Batch files

• One-click Batch Generation — Writes a ready-made cleanup batch file to your Desktop, built from Fixyfier’s own commands.
• Build Your Perfect Batch — An editor where you type the commands you want, one per line, and save them as a batch file on your Desktop.

MyTools — your own scripts

Put a .bat, .cmd, .ps1 or .vbs file in Documents\Fixyfier\MyTools and it appears in Scripts as a card straight away, with no restart — Fixyfier watches the folder. Running one from Fixyfier runs it with administrator rights, because Fixyfier already has them: no right-click → Run as administrator, no UAC prompt for every script, and no execution-policy detour for PowerShell. The confirmation names the file and reminds you that it is unverified before it starts. Scripts can also be steps in a Routine.

Those are your files and your code. Fixyfier lists them and starts them, but never reads, checks, changes or vouches for them; it cannot tell whether one is safe, and it cannot undo what one does. Run only scripts you wrote yourself or fully trust.

The first three runs are free. After that, MyTools is a one-time unlock through the Microsoft Store — no subscription, no premium tier, no priority support, and every other feature works exactly the same whether you buy it or not. Already bought it? It unlocks itself once you are signed in to the Store. The heart button in the top bar is different: a plain tip through PayPal, with nothing to unlock.

Troubleshooting Guides

The whole fixyfier.com library of troubleshooting guides — 72 articles — is browsable inside the app, grouped the way the website groups it. Each card opens the article in your browser. The articles are written in English, so their titles are shown in English in every language of the app.

• Performance & Startup — 12 guides
• System Stability & Crashes — 12 guides
• Updates & Activation — 12 guides
• Network & Connectivity — 12 guides
• Hardware & Peripherals — 12 guides
• Apps, Cloud & Maintenance — 12 guides

The same library is behind the search box: type a symptom and the matching guides appear under the tasks, and when no task matches, the guide is the answer. Network & Connectivity also carries one featured article on secure browsing, privacy and public Wi-Fi, clearly labelled as a recommendation rather than a guide.

Browse the library on the website: fixyfier.com/troubleshooting.

Settings, Privacy & Reset

Theme and language

The Theme button switches between light and dark; the Language button lists the 39 languages Fixyfier is translated into. Both take effect immediately. The MyTools readme.txt is rewritten in the language you choose.

Where your settings live

Everything Fixyfier remembers — theme, language, the Confirmation switch, the restore-point switch, your routines and the MyTools trial count — is stored in the Windows registry under HKCU\SOFTWARE\Fixyfier. The only files Fixyfier ever writes are the Microsoft Store entitlement cache and the readme.txt in your MyTools folder. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics and no log file; nothing about your PC is sent anywhere, and the only thing Fixyfier itself ever downloads is the Extra Cleaning Rules list — on request, straight into memory. The only question Fixyfier ever asks the Microsoft Store is whether your account owns the optional add-on.

Reset to Default Settings

Puts Fixyfier back to the way it was installed, then closes. Its settings, your saved routines, the record of which prompts you have dismissed and the Store entitlement cache are all removed. Nothing about Windows itself is changed, and nothing you have already fixed is undone. Your own files are not Fixyfier’s: the scripts in MyTools, and anything else you put in Documents\Fixyfier, survive unless you tick Also delete my Fixyfier folder in Documents — and that box says how many scripts it means. The reset always asks first, whatever the Confirmation switch says, because it is one-way. The count of free MyTools runs you have already used is kept.