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      5 months ago

      Even without all the invasion of privacy implications, I’m skeptical it would even work. Source: 20 years of “Windows is checking for a solution to the problem” that has never worked even once.

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        5 months ago

        I’ve actually had those troubleshooters work for me several times in recent years. Mostly fixing networking issues.

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          5 months ago

          I guess for the basic stuff I do when I’ve had programs crash I’ve never seen it do anything, but nice to know it’s not completely useless

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            Frankly, this is one of the areas I’m most looking forward to seeing what integrated AI can do for Windows. A couple of months ago I was having trouble with getting my printer to work and what I ended up doing was taking a screenshot of the printer settings and pasting the literal image of the screen into Bing Chat to ask it what I was doing wrong. It was able to parse my settings out of the image and figured out what I needed to change to make the printer work.

            Having a troubleshooting AI like that that can actually “read” the entire state of my machine would be great.