I found all of the above to be lacking years ago tbh no matter what platform the advice was for. I'm really glad now that I can just go back and forth with even a free-tier chatbot for 2-3 messages to fix any fixable problem, or just have a cursor agent tinker with it interactively until it's fixed.

I know what you're talking about. Microsoft is so large, that the smallest of gaps are enough for ecosystems to form around and provide people a living.

For example, people trawling the Microsoft Q&A forum for low hanging fruit to provide advice to and build out their little home computer repair business profile.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/824/windows-h...

Some of these answers are really dubious. Some of these questions are really dubious.

We're passed reddit bots. Now we're onto mysteriously sourced AI summaries.

Even pre AI spam, Reddit was almost useless for technical advice. Absolute last resort unless I was going to try Quora next.

No, it's just lost, the old windows forums went offline. Technet was poorly archived too, that was all lost.

There is so much obscure windows crap that can be found in the old internet.