Technicians who are troubleshooting PC issues or errors often need to use a tool that can provide them with extensive information about the computer system’s hardware and software. We have reviewed many programs in both categories in the past including Speccy, PC Wizard or Driver View in the hardware category and Hijack This, Autoruns or [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Windows

The System Mechanic software has been around for ages and the developers have recently introduced version 8 of their troubleshooting and maintenance product that is compatible with the 32-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000. The software provides access to various tools that repair so called “problems”, make the computer faster and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows