I've been using Vista for quite a while now and keep finding neat new things. I read about this in a Ars Journal post:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/29/vistas-reliability- monitor-provides-detailed-information-on-os-uptime I knew that event viewer had had a glorious overall, but I never checked our performance monitor before last night. (Getting to it is simple: hit the windows key, type "rel" and hit enter.) It's performance monitor on super steroids. You can now see process impact on the four major subsystems individually (CPU, Disk, Memory and Network). There are a ton of reports, data collectors and so forth - you could spend hours playing. The really nifty aspect however is the "Reliability Monitor". This tool shows you, in graphic detail, the reliability rating of your system. It tracks Software installs and uninstalls and application, hardware, windows and "miscellaneous" failures. Using the history it assigns your PC a reliability "Index" number from 1 to 10 (10 being best). >From chart I can walk down memory lane. For example when the "Vista CODEC package" nearly hosed my system I can see all of the errors in detail and note than my reliability index went down to a ridiculous 1.33. Looking at the next day I can see where I used System Restore to erase the CODEC package from my life and my index has steadily risen since (today it's 6.63). The index is actually pretty harsh. In another area my index dropped from 6.25 to 2.25 in two days. There was one "Windows Failure" and nine app failures - but from only two apps (the gspot CODEC tool and the zplayer media player... still was having trouble getting CODECS happy). It killed my reliability index, but I knew I was screwing around. ;^) For all these people claiming that Vista is junk they may want to look here - it could not only confirm their problems but provide information on what's causing them. It'll be especially handy to those of use that provide free family tech support. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237722 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
