v1.7.26July 2026
Honest by default
A privacy and honesty release: diagnostic reports can never include your username, nothing is shared unless you clearly said yes, and background monitoring is described as exactly what it does.
- Anonymous diagnostics can no longer include your name. File paths on Windows run through your personal user folder, and that folder is named after your Windows username. The optional anonymous diagnostic reports now scrub that folder from every path shape we could produce in testing, including shortened fragments, forward-slash forms, and network paths, plus PC names that would give identity away. And if a report cannot be scrubbed for any reason, it is not sent at all
- Sharing is off unless the app can prove you said yes. If your diagnostics preference cannot be read for any reason, the app treats the answer as no and sends nothing. Turning sharing off now also takes effect even if saving that preference fails partway, so a failed opt-out can never silently leave sharing on
- Background monitoring now says exactly what it does. It watches for problems and tells you about them, so you can open SimpleFixAI and fix them with one click. It does not repair your PC unattended, and it never has. The app, the website, and the documentation now all describe it the same honest way, and the old Self-Healing name is retired in favor of Background Health Monitor
- We also fixed our own measuring sticks. A few of the anonymous statistics the app reports about itself were counted wrong, which made some things look better than they really were. Those instruments now report true numbers, because deciding what to improve next only works if the measurements are honest
- A security hardening pass on the undo engine closed a narrow theoretical window in how temporary files were created during elevated repairs. We found no evidence it was ever abused; it is fixed on principle, the way a repair tool should be
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