Microsoft® Windows® 7 Unveiled: Exposing the Latest Features and Functions That Set Windows 7 Apart from Its Predecessors

Chapter 9. Performance and Troubleshooting Tools

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Performance Information and Tools

• Reliability, Resource, and Performance Monitors

• Task Manager

• Backup and Restore

• Troubleshoot

• Problem Steps Recorder

Over time all systems begin to decrease in performance and increase in technical troubles. The reasons are simple. As you add more programs to your new OS, add files, and turn on more services, your computer begins a performance decline. There is typically a bottleneck that stands out above the rest, and so the tools provided within Windows 7 can help locate those bottlenecks and hopefully mitigate some of them. Troubles come with time as well due to hardware wear and tear, which you need to be made aware ...