Comments on: CyberNotes: Understanding Vista’s Reliability and Performance Monitor

By: ph15h

ph15h — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:24:48 +0000

You can also bring this up by typing:

Perfmon.msc into the Run box

By: jacques

jacques — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:30:04 +0000

@ Ashley : May the following infos help you, I hope.
Intel Corporation driver update for Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family, released 2007/12/19

Here are more infos and download :
[winqual.microsoft.com]
Greetings

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:06:10 +0000

jacques wrote:

@Ashley
What about Intel driver.Mobile Intel 945GM/GU Express Chipset Family?
It seems to have a wide range of graphic chipset compatibility, and it does work well for me on a HP Compaq Presario V6149 laptop. Yet seen it on other laptops using 2 screens, like you, like me. I disconnect the 2nd too at night through a well done UI.
Hope this can serve you!

Thanks for the advice, I’ll have to try it and see what happens…

By: jacques

jacques — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:01:50 +0000

@Ashley
What about Intel driver.Mobile Intel 945GM/GU Express Chipset Family?
It seems to have a wide range of graphic chipset compatibility, and it does work well for me on a HP Compaq Presario V6149 laptop. Yet seen it on other laptops using 2 screens, like you, like me. I disconnect the 2nd too at night through a well done UI.
Hope this can serve you!

By: jacques

jacques — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:45:18 +0000

On my reliabilty monitor,score is 10 since 07/10/27. With Vista Pr. since 07/05/10(almost 6 m. to understand what Vista doesn’t like).
I mainly use (in order of use I think) Opera 950 post beta, MS VStudio 2005e.ed.-VisualC# and VB, Komposer, PaintNet322, starOffice8 upd.8, plus a lot more too long to quote them all, like everybody.
Aero+3Dflip is enabled and in main visible bg stands N.I.S 2007. Xplorer2 as explorer does the job.Before this date, I got frequent “error 1000″, aka “x.exe doesn’t respond anymore”. But an error 1000 costs, taking days to reach again the score you were in the rel.mon! But once you’ve set all things ok, score increases, and only big errors can have it down. I roughly test all new things on my former Vista desktop PC (test machine) before installing on my Vista laptop.
Another handy tool for those who want to know a bit more their computer reliabilty is “creating a performance report” through “advanced tools” in “informations and performances tool”. You may just watch the report and not keep it. Handy. Keeping always an eye on Console Event logs is recommended on Vista. A whole set of control tools making Vista a bit more “visible” than XP.imho.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:49:32 +0000

IMHO, I don’t think it’s much of an improvement over XP’s System Monitor, except for the nicer icons and graphs. And most of it is also reported in more detail in the Event Log, so its not of much use for those users who regularly check the Event Log to keep their system healthy. Nevertheless, its a fun utility for stats.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:25:21 +0000

Yep, that’s my reliability monitor. The biggest issue I have is that my computer has issues coming out of stand-by after disconnecting from a dual-monitor setup. I work with a dual-monitor set-up all day and then disconnect at night and just use my laptop. For some reason or another, Vista has serious issues with this which then causes a “disruptive shutdown.” If I weren’t connecting and disconnecting a second monitor everyday, I’m sure my reliability score would be much higher.

By: Southern Cross

Southern Cross — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:09:21 +0000

Whoa, it that your reliability moniter? Mines stays at 8.xx and goes up, something happens goes back down to 8.xx again.

Wait, just realized you were using Firefox 3b.

Opera 9.5b dosen’t seem to crash that much…O.O

Anyways, thanks for the info. I’ll be using this more..