This topic provides you with information about the common administration and troubleshooting tasks and tools associated with system recovery and reliability. It also provides links to content that will help you manage Startup Repair.
Common tasks
Startup Repair
Reliability Monitor
Windows Memory Diagnostics
These links will take you to additional information on the Microsoft Web site.
View System Stability with Reliability Monitor
Check client memory with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Useful tools
Management Console
Downloads
Deployment
Operations
Technical reference
This section describes the Microsoft Web site downloads and tools associated with this version of Windows that help you with Startup Repair.
There is no Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for Startup Repair. Either Startup Repair runs automatically when it detects a problem during the startup sequence or you can launch it from the installation media or a recovery partition during startup.
Startup Repair is included on the installation media or provided in a separate disk partition used for recovery. No further Startup Repair-related downloads were available when this documentation was last updated.
For more information about deploying Startup Repair, go to the following resources on the Microsoft Web site:
Step-by-Step Guide for Windows Deployment Services
Windows Automated Installation Kit User's Guide
Deploying Windows Vista
For operational information about Startup Repair, go to the following resources on the Microsoft Web site:
Reliability Tools Help
No technical references for Startup Repair were available when this documentation was last updated.
This section describes the Microsoft Web site downloads and tools associated with this version of Windows that help you track client reliability and investigate causes of poor reliability.
It may be necessary to run MMC and the associated snap-ins with elevated privileges even if your account is in the Computer Administrators group.
To open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for Reliability Monitor with elevated privileges, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and then point to Run as administrator. In the command prompt that opens, type compmgmt.msc to start MMC with the Computer Management snap-in, which includes Reliability Monitor.
Reliability Monitor may not be able to display data on the Stability Chart until it has been running for a number of days.
No Reliability Monitor -related downloads were available when this documentation was last updated.
For information about deploying Reliability Monitor, go to the following resources on the Microsoft Web site:
Performance Monitoring and Reliability Step-by-Step Guide
For operational information about Reliability Monitor, go to the following resources on the Microsoft Web site:
No technical references for Reliability Monitor were available when this documentation was last updated.
For an overview of new reliability features in this version of Windows, go to Reliability and Diagnostics on the Microsoft Web site.
This section describes the Microsoft Web site downloads and tools associated with this version of Windows that help you maintain client reliability by allowing you to test each computer's physical memory.
To start Windows Memory Diagnostics with elevated privileges, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and then point to Run Elevated. In the command prompt that opens, type mdsched.exe. Windows Memory Diagnostics opens, allowing you to choose whether to test the memory during the next restart or to restart the computer and test the memory immediately.
No downloads associated with Windows Memory Diagnostics were available when this documentation was last updated.
For information about deploying Windows Memory Diagnostics, go to the following resources on the Microsoft Web site:
For operational information about Windows Memory Diagnostics, go to the following resources on the Microsoft Web site:
