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Windows Reliability Monitor – Visualize Event Log Errors

February 22, 2012 by Rick

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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Tweaking.com Windows Repair – Fix Common Windows Problems

February 15, 2012 by Rick

Authors: Bryce Whitty

Tweaking.com Windows Repair is a small, portable and free all-in-one repair tool designed to help you fix common Windows problems. Dial-a-Fix used to be a great tool for this task but it does not work on Windows 7 and has not been updated for years. Windows Repair is a great alternative.

With its 5 step tabs telling you to run Checkdisk, System File Checker and Backup the Registry before you start using the main part, you can see it targets end users a bit more than Technicians but these steps are worth doing anyway. The real power is when you choose “Custom Mode” on the Start Repairs stage.

The following are the repair options you can choose:

Reset Registry Permissions
Reset File Permissions
Register System Files
Repair WMI
Repair Windows Firewall
Repair Internet Explorer
Repair MDAC & MS Jet
Repair Hosts File
Remove Policies Set By Infections
Missing Start Menu Icons
Repair Icons
Repair Winsock & DNS Cache
Remove Temp Files
Repair Proxy Settings
Unhide Non System Files
Repair Windows Updates
Repair CD/DVD Missing/Not Working
Repair Volume Shadow Copy Services
Repair Windows Sidebar/Gadgets
Set Windows Services to Default Setup
Repair MSI (Windows Installer)

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Downloads:

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Rizone Complete Internet Repair – Repair Common Internet Connection Issues

January 6, 2011 by Rick

Authors: Bryce Whitty

Rizone Complete Internet Repair is a small, freeware and portable application designed to repair common internet connection issues. A multitude of problems can prevent a computer from accessing the internet such as a virus/adware attack, an incorrect firewall rule or even a legitimate antivirus product that didn’t install or uninstall correctly. Rizone complete Internet Repair attempts to repair everything internet related on a Windows system and will do the following tasks:

Reset Internet Protocall (TCP/IP)
Repair Winsock (Reset Catalog)
Renew Internet Connections
Flush DNS Resolver Cache
Repair Internet Explorer 8.0.7600
Clear Windows Update History
Repair Windows / Automatic Updates
Repair SSL / HTTPS / Cryptography
Reset Windows Firewall Configuration
Restore the default hosts file
Repair Workgroup Computers view

Works on Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7.

Note: Due to the nature of this application (editing internet settings and such), a very small amount of antivirus products detect this application as malicious. This is a false positive. [VirusTotal.com Results]

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