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Old March 29th 18, 08:41 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Reliability Monitor

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
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Alternately, you can use this. It shows an MS panel already
in your OS.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/window...ility-monitor/

Paul
Interesting; like many of the commenters on that page, I had no idea
this existed.
However, rather ironically: for me, the reliability monitor (sorry,
Reliability Monitor - I forgot for a moment that This Is Microsoft
We're Dealing With Here) doesn't work! I see ten grey pillars, with
no curve or text or dates or - well anything, and the box at the
bottom says There are no reports in this view. I presume I have some
service turned off, or similar arcanery.


I think in fact, your Reliability Monitor has one entry in
it, that says the Reliability Monitor is broke :-)


(-:

But you can't see that, because the Reliability Monitor is broke.


(-: (-:

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There's a few breadcrumbs (tech terms) in here.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...7-performance/
reliability-monitor-in-action-center-does-not-show/7ce9ad4d-1607-4f14-a3
6c-14f9a45d0f2b


I tried method 3 in that - no effect. (Methods 1 and 2 are basically the
old helpdesk make-the-caller-go-away one of "reboot your computer", or a
variation thereon.) Like one of the follow-up posters there, the command
RACAgent wasn't recognised in my administrator command prompt. (Not
surprising - Everything can't find any filenames that include it.)

The picture of a broken RAC.


https://filestore.community.support....es/7107ecb1-44
a3-47e2-ba4e-75f67aefa9e1


Well, that shows a window just containing one long line of text. I do
get the window with the ten pillars - just they aren't labelled with
dates or times, there's no graph drawn across them, and no entries below.

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\PublishedData and
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData

"i have tried to enable data collection for reliability monitor ,
but perhaps when i Right-clicked RAC, click View, and click
Show Hidden Tasks. ( RACAgent itask name was not visible,
even after expanding the name column)."

Perhaps it's using Scheduled Tasks for some reason.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com...s/3047.how-to-
enable-and-disable-reliability-monitor-data-collection.aspx


The task that led me to was already enabled, though showed as Ready
rather than Running. I did try changing it to Running, but no change.

It's hard to imagine any activity you're been doing
on the computer, interfering with that stuff.

so the keywords seem to be RACAgent and RACTask. And some
folders that it keeps. It probably does that, so a user can
erase Event Viewer, without damaging the RAC collection.

Paul

RACAgent not on my system; RacTask exists (as a 4,502 byte file - with
no extension - as the only file in
C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\RAC).


This shows the size and file types of the two data folders it uses.
It keeps information in SQL Compact databases (doesn't use Microsoft
ESE Jet Blue).

https://s17.postimg.org/m1ravgwvz/RAC_Data_Folders.gif

And I see evidence here, that this thing ties into CEIP and Telemetry.
So if a program fails, it's probably reported to the software developer.
And RAC is keeping statistics.

The machine I was looking at was "polluted" by a Visual Studio
installation, so I have to be careful to not jump to too many
conclusions. But the stuff looks "complicated at the edges".

There is a RAC Engine DLL that does some math or something, but
I can't figure out much else.

Paul
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