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Friday, February 9, 2007

Reliability Monitor


If you'd like to see how reliable your system is, Vista has a reliability monitor that will keep track of application, hardware and other errors. Great tool and is a CYA for Microsoft when people say their system is crashing "all the time". Reliability Monitor will really show what "all the time" really is and hopefully what's causing the majority of the problems. It's really a great tool to help diagnose problems with your machine.

To get to it, do the following:

  • Load Control Panel, switch to classic view

  • Select Performance Information and Tools

  • Select Advanced Tools on the Task Menu on the left side of the screen

  • Select Open Reliability and Performance Monitor, second one down on the list

  • Hit continue on the Windows Permission Screen


  • You'll see a screen like this:


    Off Topic: This current screen is misleading about my performance, I'm currently running an automatic Windows Backup (very recommended) to a local WD USB 2.0 hard drive (also recommended). I'm actually very happy about my performance under Vista.

    Once at the Reliability Screen, Select the Reliability Monitor on the left side of the screen. On the Date drop down box, hit select all to show all problems you may have had. In my case, I've had ZERO Hardware, Windows or Miscellaneous failures but many application failures. I've had about 46 APPCRASHes in just over a week. Thus my reasons for creating this site.

    Here are my actual screens. No they weren't photoshopped.



    Screen 2

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