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Fix broken desktop shortcuts and 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. Find other automated solutions
What it fixes...
  • Problems with desktop shortcuts and icons
    • Shortcuts on the desktop don't work or are broken
    • Desktop icons are broken or have not been used in 3 months
    • Startup items don't work or are broken
  • System maintenance tasks
    • Free up disk space by repairing disk volume errors such as bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files and directory errors
    • Free up disk space by removing error reports and troubleshooting history older than 1 month
    • Set the correct system time and synchronize system clock with the time server
  • You receive the following errors:
    • Windows update error 0x80072F8F
    • The item that this shortcut refers to has been deleted
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Instruction to Run
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  • Then follow the onscreen prompts to launch
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  • Then copy the Fix it Portable folder to the computer with the problem and run the Launch Fix it application
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