Windows Reliability Monitor – Visualize Event Log Errors

Authors: Bryce Whitty

Windows Reliability Monitor is tool is built into Windows 7 that is definitely worth mentioning because few people know about it. Windows Reliability Monitor takes the events in Windows Event Viewer and displays them in a easy to read daily graph which makes it much easier to spot trends. For example, it may show that on a certain day a Windows update was installed and every day since there has been an error. One can assume that the Windows update might be the culprit.

Windows Reliability Monitor is not designed to replace Event Viewer since Event Viewer shows much more information, but rather to help you see overall behavior of the system and see how the events may link together.

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Windows Reliability Monitor

 


How To Access It:

Goto Start and in the Run box type: reliability monitor

Or, you can go to:

Control Panel > Action Center
Expand the Maintenance drop down and under "Check for solutions to problem reports" press the "View reliability history". If you cannot see this link you may need to dismiss the error message.

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