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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 95 points 1 month ago

If you think that is pointless, remember that whenever a program closed unexpectedly, Windows would offer to "find a solution online". I have never seen that shit work in my life

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

Windows troubleshooter has never fixed a single problem for me.

[-] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 month ago

It can reset a network adapter but that the only time I've seen it do anything useful

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah but its usually faster just to reboot the machine instead of letting it dick around with itself.

Now with SSDs it is but back in the day it took approximately 3 businesses days for my gaming rig to boot up.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Never since after Win 7 fir me.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah in XP that troubleshooter actually helped me with figuring out things like "dude you did not connect the device you're trying to find" or "yes there is no internet connecting due to this setting being wrong".

And then in some OS Version it suddenly completely useless.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Initially, with Win 7, it felt even better than XP, as it applied the fixes itself and also showed a log of the fixes it made. Wonder why MS thought it would be a good idea to go in the opposite direction.

Look what they get in return? I totally off of it, now.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

They'll implement copilot into it soon. Don't worry.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

It's been surprisingly decent for audio issues for me. Often the scan for audio devices kickstarts some devices back into the land of the living.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I recently discovered windows actually has a set of far more specific troubleshooters which actually provide useful information about a problem but you have to dig around in legacy settings to find them.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 11 points 1 month ago

you have to dig around in legacy settings

Windows can still be made into a tolerable usable OS, but it basically requires a minimum of 20 years of knowledge about where the legacy control panels, settings, and secret reg keys are hidden. Every new version obfuscates them even more and yet they are no closer to feature parity with the 'modern' control panels that barely work at all.

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