Tech Tip of the Week

Vista’s quick system check

Windows Vista has no shortage of diagnostic tools. You can get a quick system check up in Vista from the System Health Report. For running this report you have to open Control Panel, click System and Maintenance, and then click Performance Information and Tools. In the Tasks list along the left, click Advanced tools. The last item on the resulting list is Generate a system health report. Each report gathers information for roughly 60 seconds, so it’s easy to run several reports. You can run additional reports while you run particularly stressful programs to see whether the load is overtaxing your system.