The reliability monitor is a control panel application introduced in Windows Vista that provides information about a computer’s reliability and problem history. The reliability monitor displays a timeline (in days or weeks) of five different system events that can be further divided into failures, warnings and information.
The five events that are monitored are application failures, Windows failures, miscellaneous failures, warnings and information. Here is how the information that the reliability monitor offers can be accessed in Windows 7.
The easiest way is to open the Windows Control Panel, click on the Action Center entry, expand the maintenance tab and click on View reliability history under Check for solutions to problem reports.
The computer reliability and problem history report displays a timeline that is divided into days by default. Each of the events that are monitored are listed in their own row with icons indicating that that an event occurred in the selected time period. There is also a graph on top that displays the total number of events that have been recorded in the time frame.
Detailed information about the events are listed in the lower half of the report window sorted by event type. The information displayed include an event name, which can for instance be the name of a process or hardware device, a short summary describing the event, the data and time the event took place and an option to take action or view additional details about the event.
The information can be sorted by clicking on the table headers. It is furthermore possible to click on any column to display the events for that specific date.
Events that are monitored are successful and unsuccessful application installations, processes that stop working, successful or unsuccessful driver installations or application reconfigurations.
Depending on the event Windows might propose to search for a solution for the problem online or display technical information about the event.
There are additional options to view all problem reports at once for a better overview and to check for solutions for all problems that have been recorded.
The Reliability Monitor is available for Windows 7 and Windows Vista users. It can aid the user in discovering specific problems and issues with the operating system. The online lookup on the other hand does not usually come up with a solution but it can still be worth a try. A search on the Internet usually yields better information on how to resolve a problem listed.
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For me the overview/diagram is always empty although I have a lot of problem reports.
Anyone knows how to solve this?
Thanks
This is really a helpful feature in Windows 7.
Hello,
It has been verry helpfull for me aswell, but i kind a wonder at what result does it to turn out badly….
if any one knows a good/bad graph of this i like to know it :)
Thanks in advance