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# Microsoft offers to fix your PC
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## New Fix It service aims to fix computer problems automatically and is
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tailored to individual machines
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![Microsoft has launched a new diagnostic and repair tool called Fix It][1]
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Microsoft has launched a new diagnostic and repair tool called Fix It
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By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor 2:43PM BST 20 Apr 2010
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[Comments][2]
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[**Microsoft**][3] has launched a new self-repair service for computers.
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Called [**Fix It**][4] the new product is based on similar features online and
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in Windows 7, but extends them to all machines from Windows XP upwards.
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The software aims to automatically diagnose and then fix common problems,
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based on Microsoft's extensive database of the faults that its users have
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encountered. It extends the Fix It buttons that are already in extensive use
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across the support pages on the company's website to individual PCs.
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The programme works by regularly checking software problems, and then
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comparing them to a list of known fixes. If solutions become available they
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are automatically installed. Fix It also tries to work out if any new updates
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are likely to cause other problems. Although it does not offer any guarantees,
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it should mean that a large number of basic computing problems, for both
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consumers and small businesses, are solved without the active involvement of
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users.
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The development of automated, bespoke solutions for individual computers has
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long been an aim for large IT firms, and was in part behind their decisions to
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collect large amounts of data about users' problems. Reporting problems to
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Microsoft, however, has previously primarily only benefited the company's
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internal improvements that have led to generalised solutions.
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Telegraph
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## [Microsoft][13]
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