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Fix My Wi-Fi — Help

Your privacy: this tool runs entirely on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is installed. You can open the downloaded file in Notepad to read exactly what it does before running it.

How to run it

  1. On the main page, click Fix my internet. A small file named FixMyWifi.cmd saves to your Downloads folder.
  2. Open your Downloads folder and double-click that file.
  3. Answer the permission boxes (see below).
  4. A report opens in your browser and is saved to your Desktop as Internet-Repair-Report.html.

No internet? You can still get the file.

Download it on a phone or another computer and copy it across on a USB stick. The tool itself does not need a working connection to run.

Why am I asked for permission twice?

Because two different Windows features are involved, and they are asking different things.

  1. "Windows protected your PC" (a blue box) appears because the file is free and unsigned. Click More info, then Run anyway. This is a caution about where the file came from, not a virus warning.
  2. "Do you want to allow this app to make changes?" (a blue-and-yellow box) appears only when repairs are actually needed. Repairing Windows networking genuinely requires administrator permission. Click Yes.

If your connection turns out to be fine, the second box never appears at all, because nothing needs changing.

Can I say No to the second box?

Yes. You will still get a full report of what is wrong, it just will not fix anything.

It said to restart my PC

Two of the repairs (the Winsock reset and the TCP/IP reset) are only partly applied until you restart. If your connection is still not right after the tool finishes, restart your computer before trying anything else. The report tells you honestly when this applies rather than claiming to be done.

What the repairs actually do

Is it safe on a work computer?

Be careful. On a company machine, a network reset can wipe settings your IT department configured, such as a fixed IP address, specific DNS servers, or a proxy.

The tool checks for all three and warns you in the report before and after running. If you see those warnings, or the tool says your PC is joined to a company domain, speak to your IT department first.

Nothing happened when I double-clicked

It still says I have no internet

The report lists specific next steps based on what it found. The two that fix most remaining cases:

  1. Restart your computer, if the report asked you to.
  2. Restart your router: unplug it, wait 30 seconds, plug it back in, and wait 2 minutes.

A quick way to tell where the fault lies: if other devices in your home also have no internet, the problem is your router or your provider, not this PC.

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