Chapter 4: Monitoring Windows
In This Chapter
Watching Windows with the built-in tools
Finding and fixing problems
Viewing connections
Working with the Event Viewer
Tracking reliability over time
Windows 8.1 ships with a tremendous array of tools designed to help you look at your system and warn you if something’s wrong.
Windows 8 included a rag-tag, system performance benchmarking routine known as the Windows Experience Index. I used to use WEI all the time as a quick way to check PCs in shops to see which ones were great and which merely mediocre: It wasn’t the best test, but it was good enough for quick comparisons, and every Windows PC had a copy.
Microsoft dropped the WEI in Windows 8.1. One of its biggest motivations: The original Surface Pro — Microsoft’s flagship Windows machine — scored a meager 5.9 on a scale from 1 to 9.9, which put it below just about any laptop or desktop ...
