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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

Labels: appcrash, Vista, Vista Ultimate

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Does anyone really read the screens?

I recently had an unexpected shutdown on a dual Xeon workstation running Vista Ultimate. One of the nice features is that Vista will search for a possible solution to problems online. If one is found, they you may get a screen like this:

Very nice. I got to Windows update, no new drivers, on to Option 2. Read carefully and follow directions, ok, so where is Display. I knew it was there in XP.

Maybe on the classic screen?

Of course, you can right click on the desktop, open personalize, select Display Settings, then Advanced... wait, hardware acceleration is not there. I have not found the sequence yet to modify hardware acceleration.

Labels: appcrash, help, solution, Vista, Vista Ultimate

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Why????

In copying a file to this very blog... I ran into a very funny bug. Well, not funny, but why in the world would this happen? See the following picture.

and then after I change the screen a bit.

The question I have is WHY WAS THIS NOT FOUND???? How in the world is someone suppose to overwrite a file when the status box overwrites the warning dialog box?

Labels: appcrash, Vista, Vista Ultimate

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Appcrash!net

This site is dedicated to collecting application crashes that may or may not occur in Microsoft Vista. I put this together due to my initial frustration with installation/upgrading my very stable Dell Inspiron 9300 to Vista Business and Office 2007. I am not a computer newbie, in fact I used to work for Microsoft in their consulting division for almost nine years.

I am very, very disappointed in this release and can not find much information on the problems that I actually have with my system. Since upgrading my laptop on January 29th, 2007, I've spent untold hours trying to get the system to work as it did under Windows XP. Some of the problems I've had are:

APPCRASH - Outlook 2007

APPCRASH - Internet Explorer 7.0

APPCRASH - Windows Explorer

APPCRASH - Windows Media Player

Typically you will see a message similar to the one on the right. This site will be dedicated to helping users diagnose, find information, contacts, and issues with Vista. The thing is, I really, really like Vista, I just wish it worked a bit better and didn't have as many "quirks" that it currently has.

Labels: appcrash, Vista, Vista Ultimate

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