Avvi can run a small set of low-risk repairs on a machine with the Workstation module: clearing the DNS cache, restarting a Windows service, clearing temporary files, and resetting the network adapter.

The list is short on purpose. Everything on it is reversible or harmless to repeat, and nothing on it touches user data.

The more useful half is what comes first. Avvi is set up to gather diagnostics before proposing a repair, so the fix follows evidence rather than a guess.

How it works

Diagnostics are read-only and happen without ceremony: system health, network state, running processes, recent errors from the event log, and outstanding Windows updates.

Repairs change something, so each one is confirmed with you first.

Restarting a service is limited to an allowlist rather than any service on the machine, which keeps the blast radius small.

Asking for the diagnostic again after a repair is how you confirm it worked. That is worth doing rather than assuming.

Good to know

Restarting the machine itself is a separate request. Ask for it as a scheduled restart rather than as a quick fix.

Anything beyond this list is outside what Avvi does on a machine, and the honest answer at that point is your own tooling.

What to do next

Describe the symptom in chat rather than naming a fix. This laptop cannot print gets a diagnostic first and a proposal second.

Read what the diagnostic found before agreeing to the repair. If a fix is offered without one, ask what it saw first.

For anything not on the list, treat Avvi as the place that gathered the evidence and take it from there.

FAQ

Q: Can Avvi restart the machine?

A: Restarting is a separate request rather than one of the quick fixes.

Q: Can it restart any Windows service?

A: No. Service restarts are limited to an allowlist.

Q: Will it run a fix without asking?

A: No. Diagnostics happen freely, and every repair is confirmed with you first.

Q: What if the fix does not work?

A: Ask for the diagnostic again. Comparing before and after is how you tell.

Related pages

Restart a server is the worked example of running one of these against a real machine.