According to Cnet, for the past few weeks, Microsoft has been adding “Fix It” buttons to some of the help documents in the Knowledge Base. The purpose of the Fix It button is to automatically do the steps that are described in the Knowledge Base help article. This is great because if there is a problem that has to be fixed by tinkering in the registry or deleting system files, you no longer have to worry about accidently doing something wrong and messing up your computer. Just click Fix It and the problem is gone! 
Currently the Fix It button is only on a couple hundred of the Knowledge Base’s thousands of articles. Microsoft is working fervently to have automated fixes; as this is up from just four Fix It buttons when the program started in December. The fixes available now include common problems like enabling the DVD library in Vista’s Media Center, speeding up Outlook downloads , and even download errors in Street & Trips 2008 .
When possible, Microsoft is even going to add a Fix It button into the error reporting tools in future versions of Windows. This is a great improvement from the old “Send error report to Microsoft“ option. The Windows 7 Action Center already includes the framework to offer automatic fixes when a user encounters a problem. In the future, Microsoft aims to have products that are able to spot problems before they happen, or offer ways to take action before problems happen.
It seems that with each day, reports of the new features of Windows 7 are restoring the publics confidence in Microsoft that was lost with Vista. If you have any ideas or improvements that you would like to see implemented in Windows 7, then email us at caseytech@GMX.com, with “Windows 7” as the subject. You can also get instant gratification by leaving a comment.
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