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One smart thing that Vista and Windows 7 does is pack in a lot of diagnostic tools. Most people won’t need to use all of them, but one such tool that is extremely useful is the **System Health Report**. The System Health monitor provides you with an informative and organized report that can help you pinpoint potential problems. To use this, go to **Start**, **Control Panel**, **System and Maintenance**, **Performance Information and Tools**. You will see a task list on the left. Click on **Advanced Tools**. The last item on the list is **Generate a system health report**.



The report takes roughly 60 seconds to run, which makes it easy to run many of them whenever you need to.