Every fix in the PCRescue Kit carries a label. Safe, Caution, or Advanced.

Most are Safe. They do something reversible or something Windows itself would do on a good day. Clear a cache. Restart a service. Reset an adapter. Press it, and if nothing improves, nothing is worse either.

Caution means the fix works but it changes something you might notice. It might log you out of things. It might reset a preference you set on purpose three years ago. It might take twenty minutes and you cannot use the machine while it runs.

Advanced means I would want to know what is going on before I ran it.

I could have hidden these labels. A tool that says "one click and you're fixed" sells better than a tool that says "this one might log you out of your email." I know that, because that is exactly what the fake optimizers say, and people buy them.

But here is what happens when a tool does not warn you. Somebody presses the big green button, something they cared about changes, and they have no idea which of the four hundred things it "cleaned" did it. Then they call me and I spend an hour working backward through damage a program caused for free.

The label is there so you can make the call. Most of the time you will press it anyway and it will be fine. Occasionally you will read it and think, not today, not before that meeting. That is the point.

There is one rule that overrides all three labels. If the drive health check comes back with a warning, stop. Do not run anything else. Back up first. A drive reporting bad sectors is telling you it is going to fail, and nobody can predict the gap between the warning and the failure. If you do not have a backup, here is how to set one up without the cloud.

The same logic is why every fix shows you its command before it runs. You should be able to see what a program is about to do to your computer. That should not be a feature.

pcrescue.me/kit. Windows for now, Mac coming. If a Caution fix looks like the one you need and you would rather not press it alone, call the shop. 207-956-0629.