Vista should be more stable than XP. But what is the actual level of reliability of your system? The reliability and performance check of Vista helps to assess your own system.

CALLING UP THE TOOL: Open the new tool with 'Start I Control Panel'. Click "Performance and Maintenance" and then "Administrative Tools". You can reach the same window in the Control Panel classic view by double-clickingon "Administrative Tools". Right-click the "Reliability and performance monitor" link to the right of the window and select "Run as administrator". Authorize the command by selecting an administrator account and entering the password if required If you are already logged on to an administrator account, you won't be prompted to select another account.

CONTROLLING THE UTILIITY: The tool starts in "Resource" view. In the overview, the operating system presents diagrams for the CPU, network and memory utilization. It also provides detailed information on individual tasks, example reading and writing data, CPU utilization by individual processes. Click the arrow in the title
bar to pop open tables with the required information-these give you a quick overview of the current scenario.

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RELIABILITY CHECK: The "Reliability monitor" function is even more interesting-it clearly indicates the stability of Windows Vista. The data goes back to the day and time of installation. To access this The reliability and performance monitor shows a timeline of crashes and program errors. view, select" Reliability and Performance I Monitoring tools I Reliability Monitor" in the tree structure on the left. The tool collects information about program installations and uninstallations as well as Windows errors and other errors.

The timeline at the top indicates when these events occurred. The graph sets a "Reliability index" between 1 and 1 0, and the current value can be seen to the right of the timeline. The index starts with 10 on the day Windows Vista is installed and reduces with every negative event. If the OS runs without errors for some time, the index shows an improvement.

Select a day in the timeline to see more information about the events of this day in the bottom sections of the window. This way you can find out which applications crashed or which errors occurred and negatively influenced the index. You can even find out when such events occurred. This helps you identify the causes of problems and possibly correct or uninstall programs to improve the overall stability of your system.