Microsoft "Fix It" Tools

Microsoft offer a selection of automated tools under the "fix it" label to scan your system for common problems (no Windows XP support). Not that useful to be honest for techies but for the novice user they might provide some insight and solutions particularly the system maintenance tasks and overall system performance tools.

Your CD/DVD drive cannot read or write media
Automatically diagnose and repair problems with your CD or DVD drive when trying to read or burn media in Windows.

Printing problems and printing errors
Automatically diagnose and repair when you cannot print, or for problems installing a printer, connecting to a network printer and related errors.

Diagnose and fix problems with sound and audio
Automatically diagnose and repair problems with sound and audio on your computer or when your computer does not play sound.

Common system maintenance tasks
Automatically detect and fix common maintenance problems such as broken desktop shortcuts, unused icons, disk volume errors, and incorrect system time display.

Problems with overall system speed and performance
Automatically diagnose and fix causes of poor system performance, such as the power saver setting, multiple anti-virus programs running, multiple startup programs running, and too many users logged on to the computer.