About Justfixwindows.com
Justfixwindows exists for one reason: to save someone the hour we already spent figuring it out.
Every guide here started as a real problem someone sent us — a blue screen, a formula that wouldn't work, a document that wouldn't open. A writer investigated it, found what actually fixed it, and wrote it down so the next person doesn't have to start from zero.
Most Windows and Office troubleshooting advice online is either buried in a forum thread from 2014, padded with ads and unnecessary backstory, or trying to get you to download a "PC optimizer" tool you don't need.
Justfixwindows.com is a straightforward alternative: pick your problem, follow the numbered steps, and get back to work. No sign-up, no downloads required to read a guide, and no affiliate-driven recommendations to install third-party "repair" software.
The site started with Windows itself — updates, blue screens, drivers, performance — and has since grown to cover Microsoft Office apps like Excel and Word, since so many Windows problems people run into show up while they're trying to get spreadsheet or document work done. Windows and Office are separate Microsoft products, not the same thing, but the two show up together often enough in real troubleshooting that it made sense to cover both in one place.
We are not Microsoft, and we're not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation in any way.
Windows, Excel, Word, and Office are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, referenced here only to describe the products our guides cover. Justfixwindows.com is an independent, reader-supported publication — we don't receive anything in return from Microsoft, and we don't accept payment to recommend a product. If a guide ever recommends software, it's because we genuinely think it's the right tool for that specific problem, not because of a financial arrangement behind it.
The same independence applies to our hardware brand guides: Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer, Microsoft Surface, MSI, and Samsung are trademarks of their respective owners. We're not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these companies — the guides exist to help owners of that hardware, based on publicly documented, official procedures from each manufacturer.
Who writes this
We're not a crowd-sourced wiki anyone can edit. We're a small group of writers who each know their corner of Windows and Office well, and who'd rather spend an hour solving your problem properly than publish a rewritten version of someone else's guess. See our editorial policy for exactly how a reported problem becomes a published guide, and why you can trust what you read here.
How guides are written
Each guide starts with the most common cause and the simplest fix, then works toward more involved steps. That ordering matters — most problems are solved by the first one or two steps, so we don't bury them under advanced troubleshooting you probably don't need.
What we don't do
We don't recommend registry cleaners, "PC boost" utilities, or third-party driver updater tools. Windows' and Office's own built-in tools (Device Manager, Windows Update, Office Repair, the troubleshooters in Settings) are sufficient for the vast majority of problems covered here.
Something missing?
If you've got a Windows or Office problem that isn't covered yet, let us know — that's exactly how new guides get added.