SimpleFixAI 1.7.15: you are now in control of permissions, and an honest bug story

SimpleFixAI 1.7.15 is the elevation and honesty release. It puts you in control of how the app asks for administrator permission, and it ships a set of fixes that make the app tell you the truth: what it changed, what it could not check, and whether an undo actually worked. That last one includes a bug we found in our own stress-testing, and we would rather tell you about it than quietly patch it.

You choose how permissions work

Windows asks for administrator permission before an app can change protected settings. Until now, SimpleFixAI triggered that prompt for almost every repair, one click at a time. Settings now has an Elevation section where you make the choice once.

Run as administrator restarts the app with rights a single time, so qualifying repairs stop asking on every fix.

Ask every time is the default. It behaves exactly as it always has, one prompt per repair, and nothing changes for you if you like it that way.

Plan only shows you the full repair plan without changing anything at all. You see what would run, in what order, and why, and not a single setting is touched.

You can set this during first-run onboarding and change it any time.

Removing the prompt does not remove the safety net

This is the part we care about most. Choosing run as administrator removes the Windows permission click, and nothing else. Every repair still takes its safety snapshot first. Undo still works. And any repair that needs a restart, touches several areas of your system, or carries real risk still stops and asks you inside the app before it runs. Nothing starts running on its own that did not before.

Plan only is guaranteed to change nothing

Plan only should mean exactly that, so we made the guarantee airtight. Every repair now stops at a dry-run check before it could make a single change. When you are running as administrator you can also ask for a dry-run preview, which walks the real repair script in simulation mode and reports what it would have done. A preview provably leaves your system exactly as it was.

An honest bug story: undo now checks itself

Undo restores the exact settings a repair changed. While stress-testing this release, we found a long-standing bug: if one of those restore steps quietly failed, the app could still report the undo as done. That is the kind of quiet dishonesty we are building SimpleFixAI to remove, so we fixed it.

Undo now verifies each step as it restores it. If something could not be put back, it tells you plainly instead of claiming success. A reported undo is now a real one.

No more false all-clear

Some checks, like drive health, boot configuration, and the Windows component store, can only run with administrator rights. Before, when they could not run, they could read as if everything was fine. Now the app says not checked (needs administrator) for those items, so you always know the difference between what was actually measured and what still needs an elevated look.

Still free, offline, and private

None of this changes what SimpleFixAI is. It runs entirely on your PC, with no account required, and it is free during the public beta. Every repair is still backed up before it runs, and you can still undo it with one click, now with the app checking that the undo really worked.

Free during beta at simplefixai.com.