Reliability Monitor helps pinpoint problems
The Reliability Monitor offers a numeric index of your system's resistance to crashes (10.0 is perfect). Digging into the red X's and yellow exclamation points can help identify whether problems or transient or persistent. In this case, trying to install an old video driver resulted in blue-screen errors. With he correct driver installed, the problems vanished.
For a much more detailed discussion of how to use Windows Vista's built-in utilities to find and fix performance problems, see Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools.
For a much more detailed discussion of how to use Windows Vista's built-in utilities to find and fix performance problems, see Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools.
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