• Diyan
• On July 20, 2017

Surface Diagnostic Toolkit app may help you repair your device

Windows 10 S, the operating system installed on the newly released Surface Laptop and expected on many other upcoming devices, doesn’t allow you to install traditional *.exe programs, so Microsoft tries to fill the gap by offering alternative solutions from the Store. The company is now launching a Store app that lets you to uncover and resolve software and hardware issues with your Surface.

Surface Diagnostic Toolkit app is already live in the Windows Store, although it’s currently only available for the Surface Laptop and the Surface Pro. Other devices, like the Surface Pro 4 and Pro 3, may also be able to install the app from the Store in the future, or they can always download the non-Store version of the tool from here.

Here’s the description of the app: [Download]

Part educator, part detective, and part doctor, the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit guides you through a set of software repairs and hardware diagnostics to quickly and efficiently uncover and resolve issues you are experiencing on your device. Use this app to check your battery health, lookup information about your device, repair common software issues, and validate your Surface hardware. The Surface Diagnostic Toolkit is the best place to start troubleshooting, and will guide you to the best support avenue for the quickest resolution, so you can get back to turning ideas into actions and accomplishing more with your Surface.