Vista Performance Rating and Monitoring The Windows Vista Performance Rating and Monitoring Utility is more than just a report card saying how good or bad your PC is doing in its benchmark. It is also a tool that gives you a visual representation of what components are inadequate or are causing a bottleneck with your system. It could be used to diagnose slow startups or general system slow downs.

To enable the Vista Performance Rating and Monitoring Utility, go to Start>Control Panel>System and Maintenance. On the System and Maintenance section, click Performance Ratings and Tools. You will then see a list of the majpr hardware components running on your PC, along with a rating for each component. The rating reflects the lower of these scores.   A higher rating for a PC is good, as the lower numbers indicate a problem with your hardware. For instance, if you upgraded an older PC to Vista , you may have a rating of two or three. If you purchased a new computer after the launch of Vista , you may have a rating of four or five. Probably the best feature of the utility is its Reliability and Performance Monitor. This can track your computer’s performance over a period of time. So if your PC was running great up until May 12, 2007, you can expand that date to see if you might have installed a program or introduced a piece of hardware that day. This can help you monitor and resolve problems in a matter of minutes.   So use the performance monitor and do what you can to improve the speed and reliability of your Windows Vista computer. If you have any questions, please join our message board  or read scroll down for related articles.

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