Many people who have clicked Send Error Report have wondered why they've never heard back from Microsoft—not even a simple "Thank you. Even token responses are out of the question. This program continues with Vista's new Windows Error Reporting service. This is an opt-in error-reporting service designed to provide Microsoft and program developers with much more detailed information about program crashes. Vista offers a limited set of customization options that control the behavior of the Windows Error Reporting service as well as the contents of the reports.
That can only be a good thing because it's clear that these kinds of reports are useful. Microsoft has received and studied many such reports over the years, and we're starting to see the fruits of this labor in Windows Vista, which comes with built-in fixes for many of the most common causes of program crashes.
In previous versions of Windows, the only way you could tell whether your system was stable was to think about how often in the recent past you were forced to reboot.
If you couldn't remember the last time your system required a restart, you could assume that your system was stable. Not exactly a scientific assessment!
Windows Vista changes all that by introducing the Reliability Monitor. This new feature is part of the Reliability and Performance Monitor, which I discussed in more detail in Chapter 14 see "Using the Reliability and Performance Monitor". In the console window that appears, click Reliability Monitor. Reliability Monitor keeps track of the overall stability of your system, as well as reliability events , which are either changes to your system that could affect stability or occurrences that might indicate instability.
Reliability events include the following:. Reliability Monitor graphs these changes and generates a measure of system stability over time so that you can graphically see whether any changes affected system stability see Figure The System Stability Chart shows the overall stability index.
A score of 10 indicates a perfectly reliable system, and lower scores indicate decreasing reliability. A service is a program or process that works in the background to perform a specific, low-level support function for the operating system. You can see all the services on your system by following these steps:. Many services are mission-critical, and if any one of these crucial services fails, it almost always means that the only way to recover your system is to shut down and restart your computer.
With Windows Vista, however, every service has a recovery policy that enables Vista to restart not only the service, but also any other service or process that is dependent on the failed service. When your computer won't start, it's bad enough that you can't get to your programs and data and that your productivity nosedives. What's even worse is that you can't get to your normal troubleshooting and diagnostics tools to see what the problem might be.
Yes, there are startup troubleshooting techniques, but they can often be time-consuming, hit-or-miss affairs. If Windows is in its own partition, or if there's a solid backup ready, many people would prefer to simply reinstall Windows than spend an entire day tracking down a startup problem. Such drastic solutions could be a thing of the past, thanks to Vista's new Startup Repair Tool SRT , which is designed to fix many common startup problems automatically.
When a startup failure occurs, Vista starts the SRT immediately. The program then analyzes the startup logs and performs a series of diagnostic tests to determine the cause of the startup failure. The SRT looks for a number of possible problems, but three are the most common:.
If the SRT determines that one of these problems or some other common snag caused the startup failure, the SRT attempts to fix the problem automatically. If it's successful, it lets you know what repairs it made and writes all changes to a log file so you can see exactly what transpired.
If the SRT can't fix the problem, it tries the system's last known good configuration. If that doesn't work, it writes all of its diagnostic data to a log and offers you support options to try to fix the problem yourself. I would like to receive exclusive offers and hear about products from InformIT and its family of brands. I can unsubscribe at any time.
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The second type is a hard disk, which possesses the multi-disk that enables it to store about 8 Terabytes of data. It is also referred to as a mechanical drive.
The computer hard drive stores almost all the important data of your device. It is an essential component of the PC. The soul of the PC, the hard drive does not get errors very often, but sometimes the error certainly occurs due to some improper functioning and startup issues in your device.
Checking the health and status of the hard disk of your device is a very important duty in order to fix any errors that may later lead to serious problems if neglected. It is suggested to routinely check the hard disk to maintain a smooth flow of functioning of your device. In general, troubleshooting does not predict the issues for the errors such as freezing of the applications and malfunctioning of file pop-ups, but in fact, these issues do have an impact on the hard disk and storage system of your device.
Checking for the errors in the hard drive is usually an automatic function which is inbuilt in most of the system software. Checking for errors in the hard drive of your desktop computers is quite an easy task to do. All you need to do is follow the simple instructions provided by the inbuilt feature in the software system. Both Windows 7 and Windows Vista have similar issues and solutions.
There are several ways to check the Windows 7 and Windows Vista hard drive errors. The CHKDSK tool finds errors and fixes them automatically but will ask for permission if the error is complex and if there is a need to delete or change something critical. WMIC tool is an inbuilt command line interface which enables one to perform various administrative tasks.
It works with self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology that is referred to as S. T, which checks the performance and health of the hard disk drives and also can conclude a result after the scanning process. These two are the building features of windows that will help in finding the errors and fix them as per the requirements. They are easily usable and applicable for both Windows 7 and 8 even for the Windows Vista, but there are several external applications that can help you out with the problems and issues regarding the hard disk errors.
The reasons for errors in the hard disk are not always certain because the error depends on the several internal and external factors. While your system shuts down, there is some time space between the process which enables the external hard disk to restore the matter, but sometimes due to some malfunctioning in the device, the hard disk might later result in crashes in a storage system or in the functioning of the software. Here are some simple reasons along with solutions that are not generally considered as hard disk failures, but in reality, it has a huge impact on the functioning of the hard disk.
To maintain the good health of hard disk of your device, you may replace hard disk as per your convenience once in years. You can also update the windows software to keep up with the technology. Routinely have a hard drive check up for errors.
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