Vista Performance Tools

- Windows Vista Experience Index:

- To Access this Index:
1) Click the Windows button. [Previously called the Start Menu]
2) Type "System" in the live search feature.
3) Click "System" that appears as one of the top search results.

- Windows Experience Index [or Rating] is Microsoft's attempt to rate your hardware and how does it measure up to what Vista needs to run properly.

- Microsoft says it will introduce scores of 6 and above, as new hardware becomes available.

- "Microsoft should put it up to 11" ~Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap


- System Health Report: it does a scan of your system to check on performance, hardware, and etc to find out what's going wrong when, where, and which particular application that maybe causing system issues.


- Reliability and Performance Monitor: attempts to check the reliability and performance of your system, which in detail shows the of key moments in the history of your machine when there was an issue.


- System Configuration [AKA "msconfig"]: allows you to tweak your startup area, which typically loads a bunch of software that isn't needed most of the time, which slows down your boot-up time.


- Actually, the company was Winternals. Sysinternals was the website name.

- Sysinternals AutoRun, which is a advanced tool similar to "msconfig", but more tweakable.

- WebEx was anadd-on application in Firefox on Microsoft Vista that kept crashing.