Reveal Scan

What the Check-Up Actually Does

It reads this computer's settings and the programs installed on it, counts what is current and what is not, and puts those counts in a report you can read. It changes nothing, installs nothing, and leaves nothing running.

Run the check-up — no card

Run it, read it, and never speak to us again. That is a fine outcome.

Windows Update never touches third-party software

So a computer that has installed every update Microsoft offers can still be running a program whose maker stopped fixing it three years ago. Nobody has to have made a mistake for that to be true — it is a boundary, not a failure.

So who has been checking?

Two Numbers, and What Each One Means

The check-up examines 145 things across 15 categories and sorts what it finds into two counts. Every count carries the date it was measured, because a count from last month describes last month.

Already right

The larger of the two, on most machines. It sells nothing, and it is what makes the other one believable — a document that only lists problems reads as an attack.

To fix

Most of these are a job: the maker has shipped a newer version and installing it is the whole fix. Windows Update does not do this for programs Microsoft did not write. Inside this count, the report marks the programs whose maker has stopped shipping fixes at all. Nothing patches those, so the report names what to replace them with instead.

Three Steps, and Both Awkward Parts Named

Windows warns about it, and it asks for administrator. Both are normal, both have a page explaining exactly why, and neither is a reason to stop.

Step 1

Download it

Put it on the computer you want checked. Windows will warn you about a program it has not seen many times, whether or not anything is wrong. The publisher line says Watchful Solutions, Inc. — that is us. If it says anything else, stop and delete the file.

Why Windows warns

Step 2

Run it

It asks for administrator. 10 of the checks read things Windows keeps behind administrator rights, like whether the drive is encrypted. Decline and it still runs — those 10 show as "not checked", never as clear. Nothing stays installed when it finishes.

Why it asks for administrator

Step 3

Read the counts

The findings arrive in your Portal, worst door first. What to do about each one is the detailed report, which is paid — you see the price before you decide.

What to fix first

What It Reads, and What It Never Touches

It reads

Windows Defender, firewall, and drive-encryption status
Security updates Windows has downloaded but not installed
The list of programs installed, and which version each one is
Remote access, startup items, and the places software hides to survive a reboot
Sign-in settings, including whether more than a password is required

It never reads

—Your files, documents, and photos
—Your email, and anything in it
—Your passwords, and your saved logins
—Where you have been on the web

Not once, and not in aggregate. What leaves the computer is counts and settings, not content.

How Long the Report Lasts

A check-up on us is kept for 30 days. While you subscribe we keep every report you have ever run, and for 30 days after the subscription ends. Nothing is aged out while you are subscribing. The Privacy Policy says what we hold and who processes it.

What a Report Looks Like

One machine, one date, and the counts that came off it.

Sample check-up — Windows 11 Pro, run 2026-09-17

132 things already right

13 things to fix left

2 of them involve software criminals are exploiting right now — those come first.

2 being exploited now4 high7 to review

CRITICAL

Windows Defender Real-Time Protection

Real-time protection is turned off, so nothing is watching for malware as it arrives.

CRITICAL

14 Security Updates Pending

3 rated Critical by Microsoft have not been installed.

HIGH

BitLocker Drive Encryption

The system drive is not encrypted, so its files are readable if the machine is stolen.

Secure Boot is turned on

This scan observed Secure Boot turned on.

See it. Fix it. Keep it safe.

The check-up counts what is there. The detailed report says what to do about each finding, in order. Support & Defend is for businesses that would rather it were somebody's job.