Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

mistahvista — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:21:41 GMT

Hello all, thanks for inviting me to join the community. I hope all are enjoying the holidays, both, on and offline. While i'm fairly new to VISTA, I've a focused interested in learning as much as I can about the Shadow Copy features, (VSS) as the program's allocation grows seemingly unleashed and unbound by any user restraints. At this very moment, Shadow Copy is spreading larger and larger over my available free space. All your recommendations toward learning to control the nature of this beast will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Again, Happy New Year!

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

Major Trumpet — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:41:03 GMT

My system is Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit running the beta SP1 and Aviri Free-av and no other weird "system intrusive" software.

I have tried just now and still get the same message. On battery and on mains. Only difference is I changed to AVG Free AV from Aviri.

The only thing in the Event Viewer is:

"The Performance Logs & Alerts service entered the running state." showing at the exact time I tried to run the report.

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

Julian I-Do-Stuff — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:34:34 GMT

Related: how does one exclude applications etc. with known issues from the Reliability Index, so as to get an undistorted view of the rest of the system?

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

Hurricane Andrew — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:19:02 GMT

Brandon,

I'm running Vista Business, 32-bit with SP1 RC1. This also occurred on my home PC, running Vista Ultimate 32-bit. It's also on a domain, and is NOT running RC1, RTM updates and patches only. Both are running Symantec Endpoint Protection.

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

Brandon LeBlanc — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:55:14 GMT

Major Trumpet and Hurricane Andrew, I am unsure as to why you're getting "accesss denied" errors. Let me try to look into it and see what might be the issues. What versions of Vista are you running? Ultimate? Home Premium?

carusen, there's isn't much more in that article that's not offered here ;-) It just includes two extra screenshots but I instead choose to type out the process of getting to the report instead. But here I included my real experience and talked about it. But thanks for the link.

bluvg, I was unable to discover a way to get to the report via the MMC. I too think it would be great to access the report via the MMC. If anyone has any pointers as to how to access the report via the MMC let us know!

- Brandon

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

Hurricane Andrew — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:22:05 GMT

Major Trumpet,

Same thing here, though this is a domain PC running SP1 RC1. I've tried with both my regular admin account and even my domain admin account, but same issue. I have UAC turned on, and set to automatially elevate without prompting for administrators in Admin Approval mode.

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

bluvg — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:25:43 GMT

Is there a way to access this report via the Reliability and Performance MMC? I'm mostly interested in how to view one of these reports on a remote machine. The Reliability and Performance MMC (or usually, the Computer Management MMC) has been fantastic for checking what kinds of problems users are experiencing on a proactive basis (oftentimes, they don't report issues). This report is fantastic, and it would be very worthwhile to be able to generate it remotely.

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

carusen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:49:00 GMT

You will find a similar article here. It has more details and screenshots about how to check your system health with the Reliability and Performance Monitor:

http://www.vista4beginners.com/system-health

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

Major Trumpet — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:37:49 GMT

I get "Access Denied" even though I am an administrator (sole user on a non-domain system) and have UAC off!?

"Error:

An error occurred while attempting to generate the report.

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Access Denied"

Also -- the utility lacks the ability to highlight and copy that message.. so I had to manually transcribe it.

Hope this feedback helps.

re: Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

chakkaradeep — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:12:18 GMT

Thanks for the post Brandon. Any idea how to monitor the system performance for a day or two?

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