Windows Reliability Monitor – A Forgotten Troubleshooting Tool?

[Unison]

Windows Reliability Monitor – A Forgotten Troubleshooting Tool?​

Windows has a useful troubleshooting feature that I don't seem to hear mentioned very often: Reliability Monitor.

You can find it by searching Windows for:

View reliability history

It gives your PC a reliability score and shows a timeline containing things such as:

• Application crashes
• Windows failures
• Failed updates
• Driver problems
• Software installations

This can be particularly useful if your PC has recently started crashing or behaving strangely because you can look back and see roughly when the problems started.

It's one of those Windows tools that's been sitting there for years, but I wonder how many people actually use it.

Do you ever check Reliability Monitor?

Has it ever helped you track down a problem?

Or do you normally go straight to Event Viewer when troubleshooting Windows?