View Reliability history

Click the Windows Start Menu Orb and then Type in view reliability and Press Enter.

1. OR YOU CAN CLICK ON CONTROL PANEL AND THEN CLICK ON ACTION CENTER .

2. CLICK ON MAINTENANCE DOWN ARROW AND THEN CLICK ON VIEW REALIBILITY HISTORY.

3. This part can take a while, Browse through your system history Clicking on different dates. Look mostly for red X icons and yellow ! icons. You can also switch to Weeks view to speed up the process

4.When you Click on an individual date it will show all of the events from that day. Warnings and Critical messages are the problematic ones while Informational events are usually good news.

5.When you Right-Click a message you can usually do one or two things. Check for a solution or View technical details.

6. If you Clicked Check for a solution and you have an active internet connection then Windows 7 will connect and look for a fix. However this only works about 50% of the time and you’ll just receive a notice saying Microsoft is currently researching the problem.

7. If you Clicked View Technical Details then you’ll be brought to a window with just that. Among the garbled hex data you’ll see a status or error code at the end. Copy it.

Once you have the error code, it should help you relate your problem with other users experiencing the same issue.