Dotted lines indicate that there was not enough recorded data to calculate a steady Stability Index. This typically results from periods of time when the system is not in full use -- either turned off or in a sleep state.
Solid lines indicate that there was enough recorded data to calculate a steady System Stability Index. Now, if you shift your attention to the right side of the graph, you'll see that each of the five rows indicates Reliability Events in five categories: Application Failures, Windows Failures, Miscellaneous Failures, Warnings, and Information.
As you look over these rows, you'll see icons that represent the type of event that occurred. As you can see, Windows 7's Reliability Monitor makes it easy to track your system's stability over time and, as you can imagine, can be a big help in troubleshooting problems because it will allow you to determine what the problem was and when it occurred. Have you used the Reliability Monitor to track stability or troubleshoot a problem? If so, what has been your experience? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you.
Such knowledge is invaluable in detecting what changes happened, which resulted in a failure in some other component. For specific information about the failure itself simply double click on the red cross.
When you do find the fault, then you can return to other troubleshooting tools such as looking in the event logs, and searching for a restore point just before the first failure.
In Vista there was a notorious error where the System Log jammed and stopped the Reliability Monitor, but that fault seems to have been another Vista problem that has been ironed out of Windows 7. Thus utility makes it easy to check the health of a router or firewall.
Whereas Event Viewer allows you to monitor system and application events, Reliability and Performance Monitor RPM allows you to monitor and log the reliability and performance of your computer.
This is the new, upgraded version of the old PerfMon tool that has been around since the NT days. Change the view by option on the top right to Large icons. Click on troubleshooting and click on the view all option on the left panel. Run the Power troubleshooter. In the Open field type "perfmon" and press Enter on the keyboard or click OK. Performance Monitor is now open, and you can start using it.
Where is reliability monitor in windows 7? Asked by: Mr. Royce Abbott. Click on the Start Menu. In the "Search programs and files" area, type in "Reliability Monitor" and click on the link for "View reliability history". Type reliability in the Start menu search box and click View Reliability History when it appears in the Programs group. What is the difference between Event Viewer and reliability monitor? How do I check my monitor performance?
How do I access system monitor? Keyboard shortcut. Go to System Settings. How do I turn on Perfmon? You may notice that on some days the notifications had no effect on the reliability index - the error was not serious enough for the index to get lowered.
However, on other days you'll notice that one application crash drops your overall reliability by nearly 30 to 50 percent. It all comes down to what caused the crash and why. In the detail pane, you can investigate some of those serious failures that caused a huge drop in reliability.
The "Summary" field gives you a brief explanation of what happened, but to see more details you can click on "View technical details". For example, I noticed that at least every 3 or 4 days, MotoConnect. This isn't even an application that I use anymore - it was a version of the driver for the Motorola Droid that I installed back in The Description will tell you a lot of information about the application that crashed, right down to the dll file that faulted. Certainly, there's a newer version of the Motorola driver software.
Sure enough, on the Motorola site I discovered a much newer driver called Motorola Mobility that can replace this older version that's driving my system reliability down with its constant crashing. The lesson to learn from this is that it's not always a virus or malware that can make your system unreliable. Sometimes it might just be an outdated service that keeps crashing in the background and you may not even realize it, because it doesn't kick off any active alert windows.
However, the reliability monitor can help you spot those background issues you may not normally be aware of. Sometimes, fixing those background crashes can improve the overall performance of your computer. Another thing that can affect performance and reliability is whether your computer is properly up to date and patched. In the process of analyzing my reliability log, I noticed a constant warning message popping up about every week.
Clicking on the alerts, I learned that there was a list of about 10 critical Microsoft patches that were failing to install automatically. I thought that was odd, so I checked my Windows Update icon in the task bar and upon opening it up, sure enough there were a number of updates waiting to install. To fix this constant, ongoing problem just required a quick manual install of the critical updates, and voila - I ensured that my long-term reliability level for my computer would increase over the next few weeks.
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