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Welcome |
 Welcome
to another edition of Keep Your PC Healthy. We hope
our friends in the Northern Hemishere have had a great
summer and to all of you to the south - hope
your upcoming warmer weather is wonderful. In this
edition, we take a look at one way to monitor
your PC's health, as well as monitoring system
performance.
As
always,we also announce another Cool Tool of the Month
winner.
Thanks
for reading and for all the feedback, including those
cool tool nominations - keep 'em
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Reader
Feedback |
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Hi,
Thanks
for the tip on compatibility - I was able to use a
couple old apps I had that I thought were no longer of
any use.
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Health
Check -- Monitor Your PC
Health |
Windows
offers a system health reporting tool that can be used
to help you solve existing problems or avoid future
issues. On Windows XP, the tool checks the hardware,
drivers and system software for any issues and also
provides a status of the hardware. On Windows Vista, the
system health report is more advanced. It provides you
with computer information, memory, disk, network, CPU,
Hardware and software configuration, resource overview
as well as a diagnostics report. With this information
you can quickly identify any issues on your machine.
To
see the system health report perform the
following:
Windows
XP:
- Log
on as a local administrator on your computer, click
Start,
and then click Help and
Support.
- Under
the Pick a
task, click
Use
Tools to view your computer
information and diagnose problems.
- In
the Task
pane, click
My
Computer Information, and
then click View the
status of my system hardware and
software.
Windows
Vista:
- Log
on as a local administrator on your computer, click
Start,
and then go to the control
panel.
- Under
the control panel, click Performance
Information and tools.
- In
the Task pane, click advanced
tools and then select
Generate a
system health
report.
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Vista
Performance Monitor |
Do
you have issues with system performance such as slow
boot or shutdown times? If so then Windows Vista has a
performance monitor that logs drivers and programs that
may interfere with system, standby, boot and shutdown
performance.
It
logs errors and warnings and gives you detailed messages
about the program or device that is causing any
performance related problems. With the information
that is provided by the performance monitor, you can
take immediate action to resolve those issues.
To
check for performance
issues:
- Log
on as a local administrator on your computer, click
Start,
and then go to the control
panel.
- Under
the control panel, click Performance
Information and
Tools.
- In
the Task
pane, click advanced
tools and then select View
performance
details in the event log.
- You
will be brought to the performance details in the log.
To begin, just double click on the first entry. It
will open the event and you can browse it from there.
Use the up and down arrows to toggle to other
events.
Microsoft
has provided recommendations on how to resolve issues
with a slow boot and shutdown issues.
Of
course, don't forget to defrag - that always
helps!
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Cool
Tool of the Month T-Shirt
Winner |
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This
month's Cool Tool of the Month winner is
AJ Averett
of Postdam,
NY.
As
noted on their site, the Revo Uninstaller helps you to
uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your
computer even if you have problems uninstalling and
cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove
Programs" control panel applet. AJ notes that this
uninstaller "does a far better job of uninstalling
applications than the built-in Windows
uninstaller."
Thanks
AJ - and congratulations!
Become
the very next winner of this fine t-shirt (Click here to see it in
detail) by sending us your nomination
for Cool Tool of the Month. Click the link above
at top left to nominate your choice.
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Here's
to your healthy
PC,
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Software Inc | 6 Montgomery Village Ave. | Gaithersburg | MD |
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