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Windows Vista Feature Focus: Reliability Monitor | |
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| Time: 15:05 EST/20:05 GMT | News Source: SuperSite for Windows | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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While Windows has long included administrator-oriented performance and reliability monitoring tools, they were never of much use to end-users, unless of course your idea of excitement is to watch line graphs update in real time. With Windows Vista, that's all changed: A surprisingly interesting new tool called Reliability Monitor provides an ongoing snapshot of your PC's reliability, and this information is useful for troubleshooting regardless of what kind of user you are. | ||
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| #1 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 6/28/2007 4:22:55 PM |
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Paul calls this "ridiculous" - that is a major new feature.
Well... that is ridiculous. I wrote about this and the detail around the data collection points [many hundreds] that drive this and the responses from engineers at Microsoft on the 27th of May. I used a real world example of how instrumentation and the new Windows Update "Desktop" application worked to feed data to engineers and how the responses and fixes were automated. I do not think it is ridiculous at all - it is pretty major and used by Microsoft to solve complex problems for individual systems - at a very granular level. |
| #2 By 17996 (131.107.0.105) at 6/28/2007 6:31:40 PM |
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#1 -- I think Paul meant something different. I think Paul is saying, that Microsoft views the tool as very advanced i.e. only advanced users should touch it, and thus has made it somewhat hard to access. And Paul thinks that's ridiculous--he thinks the tool is useful for non-advanced users as well and should be more easily reachable.
I think he agrees with you that the tool itself is very major/powerful. |
| #3 By 23275 (172.16.10.31) at 6/28/2007 8:06:32 PM |
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#2, I hope so, but he is still missing the point, entirely.
See, so much data collection point "collection" and monitoring take place transparently [and provided], when users who, as recommended, participate and report errors when advised, they needn't get deep into this stuff at all - all they need do is review the systems tray messages that appear and read and follow the links provided. Now, I do agree that people can and should make use of these tools when comfortable, but I stress, they are already available and close to users. In the piece I wrote a month ago and in personal mails I have sent to various people [like Paul], I have encouraged that they when they face the public, that they properly assist people and direct them to these tools - instead, what one hears from many sources is just the opposite - the endless mantra that Vista is this... or that [insert your own negative]. What Mircosoft is referring to when they suggest it is complex, they are speaking to the hundreds of specific data collection points one may set up, record from and ship to MS for action - and do so remotely as part of automation systems. Regardless, it is good to [finally] see main stream sites carry some of this stuff - that directly points to the tools I and others have been saying have been there all along. Paul also misses the mark by looking at this in isolation - and apart from how it is tied to Windows Update in Vista - as a desktop app and the bridge between instrumentation on one end and the delivery of solutions on the other - all largely transparent to end users. Vista essentially does this: Collects data on what a system is doing well and not well, ships the error data, and MS engineers fashion solutions and send them back to the user's computer via the same means baked into Windows Updates - the solutions appear as specific systems tray notifications and the user clicks a link, double-taps an installer and the issue is resolved. |
| #4 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 6/29/2007 8:28:47 AM |
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This is one of the few features I will miss.
My Rollback to XP is complete. I now have a fully functional (and fast) computer and all my hardware is finally running at full speed and full capability. We'll try again when SP1 comes out. TL |
| #5 By 135 (216.17.26.137) at 6/29/2007 10:54:56 AM |
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I am not far behind you TechLarry. I've become more and more frustrated with the bugs in Vista. I like some of the new features, but it needs more tuning.
Like this... open explorer... right click and select 'New folder'. Why do I have to hit F5 to refresh so I can see my new folder? |
| #6 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 6/29/2007 12:17:18 PM |
| #5, I don't get that one - the new folder shows up instantly. Where in Explorer were you when you saw this? Thanks, L |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/29/2007 12:25:26 PM |
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What happens if the Reliability Monitor crashes? Does your PC warp space/time until it collapses into a quantum singularity?
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| #8 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 6/29/2007 1:48:15 PM |
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Soda,
I'm not the least sorry I did it. Just snapshot your current Vista config (Acronis, Vista ultimates PC Backup, Ghost, etc...) and store it away. When SP1 comes out I'm going to buy a spare HD and pull out the XP drive, put it in, and write the image back, and install SP1 and whatever updated drivers are out. If it's CONSIDERABLY better, it will stay. If not, I'll put the XP drive back in. I do not hate Vista. I like Vista. I just can't tolerate what it does to my productivity and can no longer accept my hardware running half-assed, if at all. TL |
| #9 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 6/29/2007 1:49:28 PM |
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I see that crap on Novell Shares all the time and it drives me nuts.
I've seen it intermittently in Vista. Not sure what causes it. TL |
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