Checking Your System’s Reliability in Vista

While your computer may work perfectly, when various applications stop working on a regular basis, this means the reliability index is affected. The problem is that, sooner or later, you may end up losing some work because an application that you are using twice a month crashed exactly before you managed to save your documents.

Today, I'll show you a quick method to look back and see all the software and hardware issues encountered by your Vista computer...

As a bonus, I'll also show you how to check the current system activity graphs, so let's get things started, shall we?

- Press the Start Orb, type "relia" in the search box and click the Reliability and Performance Monitor to open it. If you're really in a hurry, you can also press Enter as soon as you finish typing and see the highlighted item.


- Check the Resource Overview in the Reliability and Performance Monitor window. Expand an item to see details about programs using it.


- Expand the Monitoring Tools, if it's not open already, and select Reliability Monitor.

- Left click a day containing errors and scroll down to find details about the problems encountered.


That's it, a pretty easy way to find out what happened in the past with your computer without having to check cryptic logs that usually require a computer guru to get all the information out of them...