Chapter 14. Monitoring and Maintaining Windows

As with all software products, vulnerabilities, bugs, and other problems in the Windows operating system code are discovered from time to time, and they need to be corrected. Further, third-party programs sometimes have a way of negatively affecting how your Windows-based computer operates.

Windows 8 includes a number of mechanisms to keep your computer in good health and methods to monitor even the most arcane elements of the system to ensure that everything is in good working order.

Lessons in this chapter:

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