This site publishes fixes for specific problems — the error message you just pasted into a search box, the setting that moved in an update, the thing that worked last week and doesn’t today.
It is written and maintained by one person. There is no team here, no editorial board, and nobody is paid to sound enthusiastic. When a page says a fix was tested, it means one person at one desk tested it.
How you can tell whether a fix actually works
Most tech sites ask you to trust the author. This one would rather not ask.
At the bottom of every fix and every guide there is a question: did this work for you? The answers are counted and shown in the open — how many people said it worked, how many got there after an extra step, and how many said it didn’t. The last number is not hidden. A fix that stops working is worth knowing about, and that is the only way anyone finds out.
Where a fix has a video, the numbers from YouTube sit beside that: views, likes, comments. They are kept apart from the reader vote on purpose and never added together, because they measure different things. Views tell you how many people arrived. Only the vote tells you whether the fix worked once they got here.
About the older articles
Much of this archive was written between 2010 and 2019 — iOS 7, Windows 10 at launch, Android phones that are landfill now. Some of it still works exactly as written. Some of it is a museum piece.
Rather than quietly deleting the old pages or letting them pass as current, they stay dated, and the reader verdict is what tells you whether they still hold. A fix from 2014 that people are still confirming today is worth more than a freshly written one nobody has checked.
The videos
Many of these fixes were filmed as well as written, on a channel that has run for over a decade and passed nine hundred thousand views. The site is where the written version lives, with the video beside it where one exists.
How to help
Answer the question at the bottom of a page. Say it didn’t work, particularly — that is the more useful answer, and it is the one that gets an article corrected or retired.
