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Add a Shortcut to Troubleshooting and System Maintenance Wizard

Oct 17, 2010·Dustin·Comments (0)

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Windows 7 is a big step in making computers easier to use. It also has several wizards that can help a beginner troubleshoot, repair and maintain their PC. The System Maintenance wizard can check your system to see if it can make repairs to “fix” common problems. The System Maintenance program is located in the Control Panel. However, some people like having shortcuts, either on their desktop or in a folder dedicated to maintenance and support. Here is how to create a shortcut to the System Maintenance wizard.

1. Right click on the desktop and select “New Shortcut“.

2. For the location of the item, type in %systemroot%system32msdt.exe -id MaintenanceDiagnostic.


3. You can name it whatever you’d like, I used System Maintenance to make it easy to understand what it was.

4. Double clicking the shortcut invokes the System Maintenance wizard, as if you had launched it from the control panel.

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Dustin · Founder and Head Editor, News Poster
Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - Microsoft MVP Windows Experience (2014-2015)

Dustin is the founder and head editor of MSTechpages. He started the site to help other users of Windows. He has been very active with helping others throughout the years, from USENET to Microsoft Answers to the latest Microsoft Communities as well as other internet forums such as Reddit. He is a Sr. System Administrator, holds several industry certifications and degrees.

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