Windows 7 Reliability Monitor
Windows 7 Reliability Monitor
As its name suggests, here is where you look to get details about
programs not responding, or hardware that's failing, in fact anything that
affects the system's reliability. One of the best features of the Reliability Monitor is its ability to
keep data for months, thus the graph not only shows trends, but
also tracks-back to when a problem started. Topics for Reliability Monitor
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In Windows 7, Microsoft has uncoupled the Reliability Monitor from Perfmon; as
a result it took me ages to find its new location in the Control Panel --> Action Center
-->
Maintenance, View reliability history. See screenshot below.
Alternatively, type 'Reliability' in the Windows 7 Search dialog
box, then click on 'View reliability history'.
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The
Reliability Monitor shows a timeline of
software and hardware changes, application failures, and
shutdown problems. The Windows 7 version collects the data using WMI (Windows Management Interface)
and this explains why there is no executable such as resmon.
WMI also enables you to collect reliability data
using Windows PowerShell scripts.
All this makes this monitor more finely tuned compared with its Vista
equivalent. Incidentally, if you subscribe to the Customer
Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), these are the data events that get
sent back to Microsoft.
The chart above show three Application failures, which keep the score card (blue
line) below the maximum of 10. Note that the five categories
which
the monitor displays are Application, Windows, Miscellaneous
failures, Warnings and Information. Usually the chart defaults
to Days, but if | Weeks is highlighted you may wish to click on view by:
Days.
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