Windows Vista™ Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Detecting and Resolving Windows Vista Errors

Any particular computer can have dozens, and in some cases hundreds, of different components, services, and applications configured on it. Keeping all these components working properly is a big job and the built-in diagnostics features discussed previously in this book do a good job of detecting common problems and finding solutions for them. As discussed in Chapter 3, known problems are tracked in the Problem Reports And Solutions console. Like the built-in diagnostic features, this console attempts to provide solutions to problems where possible. Not all problems can be automatically detected and resolved, and this is where the errors reported by Windows components, applications, services, and hardware ...