YOU’LL NEED
WhoCrashed
Home Edition
(www.resplendence. com/whocrashed)
Tweaking.com
Windows Repair Tool
(www.tweaking.com)
Got a problem with your PC? The answers to your woes lie somewhere buried deep inside Windows itself, you just need to know where to find them. Windows 11 may not introduce any new troubleshooting tools to the mix, but it continues to support tried and tested tools, including Device Manager, Event Viewer, and a host of troubleshooters.
We’ll take an in-depth look at these as well as some other useful tools. Reliability Monitor is built into Windows, while the third-party tools we showcase – WhoCrashed and Tweaking.com’s Windows Repair tool – are included because they provide convenient access to system logs and tools such as System File Checker and Windows’ powerful disk-checking tools.
If the tools featured can’t provide a solution to your problem, they will at least arm you with lots of useful information with which you can go hunting for solutions elsewhere using the power of the web. The answers to your problems lie hidden somewhere, either within your PC or out on the wider internet.
"The answers to your problems lie hidden somewhere, either within your PC or out on the wider internet. "
Get a system health overview
If you’re plagued by a poorly performing system, but don’t know exactly where to look, type ‘reliability’ into the Search box and click ‘View reliability history’ to open the Reliability Monito – yes, it’s still there in Windows 11. This provides an overview of your system’s stability over the past 12 months – you’ll get an overall rating of 1 to 10, updated daily. Whenever failures or warnings are