In Vista, the system health report is a valuable tool that can help you identify problems and potential solutions. By creating a system health report, you can identify issues with your computer and software, and then take steps to correct them. To create a system health report in Vista, follow these steps:
- Open the Start menu and type “systemhealth”. This will open the System Health Console.
- In the System Health Console, click on the “Report” button. This will open a report window that looks like this: (If you are using an earlier version of Vista, some of these elements may not be present.)
- In the Report window, click on the “Create” button. This will create a new system health report: (If you are using an earlier version of Vista, some of these elements may not be present.)
To generate this report click on Start and type in “Performance” (without the quotes) and then at the top click on Performance Information and Tools.
Next click on Advanced tools …
This will open up an entire list of Performance Tools we can use to help diagnose problems with our system. Instead of going through different utilities on the list go to the bottom and generate a System Health Report.
To generate the report it takes about a minute or so. You get to look at a cool graphic (well, I guess I don’t know how cool it is but it’s something new at least). while Vista collect system information.
On this report it is telling me a test on one of my drives failed, well it is because of low disk space and this drive is external … so you need to look at these reports carefully and not get too excited when you see a failed test.
On the other hand, if something is detected such as a corrupt driver for instance, you will definitely want to make sure and correct that. As you go deeper into each section of the report you get a lot of information, far too much for me to show in this post. Even if you are not experiencing any obvious troubles I would probably run this report periodically as it could provide information that will allow you to catch something small before it grows into a larger issue.
