Interact with real-time performance and reliability charts in Windows 8
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The most noticeable visual change in Windows 8 compared to its previous versions is undoubtedly the Start menu, which breaks with the tradition of the desktop as the main access and control element for your computer. All applications run through Modern UI have a superb design and at the same time minimalist, thus allowing to only display what is truly relevant to a user.
However, not all visual/functional innovations are relegated to the framework of the new interface, since in the desktop version we have perhaps one of the most striking changes of this type:real-time performance graphsYou may have already seen them when performing file transfers or accessing the task manager, but what exactly can it offer you?
Making tools more useful
Surely you have already used tools that allowed you to see the performance of your PC in previous versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 gadgets, its task manager or even external applications that were really necessary in some cases.
Perhaps the only problem that could be found in the internal tools of Windows is that the data presented was so detailed that the really necessary information could be inaccessible to those with less control over these sections.
With Windows 8 not only can you get exactly the data you need clearly and concisely, but when running applications in full screen you can have a summary view available in at all times, showing data on the consumption of your computer's resources.You can resize it if you want it to show you a specific value, or even make the graphs disappear in the thumbnail and only show you percentages.
To do this, access the task manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc and it will surely appear directly in the processes tab. First of all, if you want this window to be displayed at all times no matter what happens on the screen (very useful for crashing with an application), you can enter the Options category in the top menu and dial always visible In case you were wondering, yes, it also works while using Modern UI apps.
We change to the performance tab, and if we right click on the left column we will see the options to change it to summary view, to hide the graphs or even to copy the information of the security we are viewing the graph. For example, if we copy the CPU information we will get something like this:
A comprehensive summary with meaning
For the first time, Windows has an application to show you a graph indicating when and how it has failed. It has been named Reliability Monitor.
The blue line in the graph represents the internal evaluation that the system itself performs, scoring on a scale of 1 to 10 based on to how its internal services, functions and drivers are working. What is surprising is that is especially hard on himself, meaning that although for every hour in which there is no failure his grade increases considerably, this grade drops sharply as soon as something didn't work as it should.
Although the graph itself can be a good summary of what happened, if we click on each column we can see in more detail by why the system is being scored in this way and what has actually happened.If we have the view by days, each column will represent a day, and if we have it by weeks, each column will be a week.
This list of events will include even crashes of any application, whether the operating system itself is responsible or the application itself (verified with a PC game). Now, any examples of how I could use this tool? Of course.
Imagine that when you are installing something, Windows notifies you, as it usually does many times, that you need to install something extra to be able to continue with what you were doing, but coincidentally right after doing so, the computer starts giving problems performance. Thanks to the reliability monitor, you can compare the exact date you installed something and thus be able to relate it to the drop in performance in the graph.
Without a doubt, a great tool that will help many users, who cannot control the inevitable.The hardware fails, the software too, but the latter more often than the former. They are day-to-day events in the world of computing, regardless of whether we are talking about tablets or desktop computers, and the only way to solve an error is to do so by first obtaining all the possible information about it to get to figure out what's wrong instead of trying to guess
