How to Check Your Memory Using the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool

If your computer's memory has problems, but it doesn't stop it from booting, you may have a pretty big problem. Defective memory can cause loss of data, system instability, and other nasty things, and best thing to prevent these from happening is to check your memory's health status. While Windows XP didn't have such a tool, Vista has it, and today I will tell you how to find it...



First, let me give you a quick hint. When you reboot your computer, you can simply press TAB to select this tool from the Windows Boot Manager screen, then Enter to run it. Now, let's see how to set this to run at next boot from Vista, since I am sure you have already started your computer!

- Press the Start Orb and type "dia" in the search box to bring up the Memory Diagnostics Tool, and then left click on this item to launch the tool.


- In the window that appears, choose one of the two available options. In the end, the effect is the same...


At next boot, you memory will be checked, and the results will be available as soon as you enter Vista's GUI, by clicking an icon that appears in the System Tray. These being said, I only need to add that I hope that you will get the same message as the one in the screenshot below, in the end!