How reliable is your Vista install?

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For those who do not know, Vista has a reliability graph. It shows you, day by day, since your install, all the crashed etc you have had. Also any installs, failed installs, drivers etc. It is scored out of ten. Click start and type in "reliability" and the top one is the one to click. Once the program opens, click on the link "reliability monitor"

Mine currently is at 4.5. A poor score I know. This being mainly due to a lot of overclocking experiments and new Nvidia driver installs. Also, Crysis keeps crashing annoyingly (only slightly as I don't really play it any more.) My PC is on 24/7 though and is used for many very different things.

What is your index and why?

How long do you leave your PC on for and how old is the install?
 
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10, I expect.

Can't check atm, but I haven't had a single crash, failed install, or even a slight hitch since installing ~1 month ago.

Thumbs up for SP1 :)
 
8.86 on x64. It's been on a steady climb now after a volts problem with my RAM. Quite annoying that CS:S crashes on exit which i know a lot of people get. My previous install averaged around 2.xx. Had loads of problems but since a fresh install, SP1 and driver updates it's been a million times better and faster.

Edit work PC is 8.45 (x86)
 
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currently, 7.06. It had dropped to about 5 at one point but that was traced to some dodgy nvidia motherboard drivers, uninstalled them, windows update found some new ones, and the problem went away, but it's still dragging my average down. :)
 
5.39. tbh though, none of it is down to windows. it was all firefox beta problems or Rightmark audio analyser, or bassbox pro which was fixed with an update. and the odd game crash
 
Cheers for that!!

Had no idea that little nugget was contained within Vista!! :)

Mine is currently, 8.65 :-

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5.95 for me. Install is a few days old but the cause of the poor score is driver experementing and SLi bugs. Every time I close the lid of my laptop, it turns off the display. thanks to SLi, when I open the lid back up, the monitor won't come back on forcing the good old "hold the power button in for 4 seconds" reboot method :(

A lot of my apps hate SLi and do the exact same thing, but it isn't a program crash, just a driver **** up :(
 
Running at 9.04, never had a major problem here and Vista has been running since launch in January 2007. :)
 
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5.95 for me. Install is a few days old but the cause of the poor score is driver experementing and SLi bugs. Every time I close the lid of my laptop, it turns off the display. thanks to SLi, when I open the lid back up, the monitor won't come back on forcing the good old "hold the power button in for 4 seconds" reboot method :(

A lot of my apps hate SLi and do the exact same thing, but it isn't a program crash, just a driver **** up :(
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Check your power options in control pannel. I had exactly the same problem but once i had changed the pci express power save option to none it went away
 
3.36 :D Although i suppose this is unfair, i'm using an Opera beta which crashes once a day maybe (and it obviously counts this). Also i've yet to find and decent nVidia drivers for my laptop that won't occasionally go boom (really no happy with nVidia!).
 
currently climbing at 5.59, been as low as 2.38. Most of my issues are adobe software not playing nice with v64, mainly golive cs3.
 
9.30 at the moment, was lower after I installed SP1, but soon uninstalled it as it screwed up my network connections....
 
9.45 atm

It went down to just below 5 at one point but most of the tie has been at about 8 or 9.

Only had two windows faliures though since last May, not too shabby I would say
 
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