Generate a System Health Report

I am trying to generate a system health report With Windows Vista Home
Premium on my Sony notebook compter.
When I try to do this it just produces a blank white screen.
Reading into the help section, It tells me that I must be signed into
the Local administrators group, And to use the command "SECPOL.EXE".
I can not find this command in the computer.
I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thank You.

Hi GMD,

There are 2 programs which I think you are refering to, and I shall cover
both of them in turn.
For the first one, 'Reliability and Performance Monitor', click the start
orb and type the above into the search box. In the results panel, right-click
on this program and select 'Run as administrator'. After providing
administrative credentials, the program will appear. If you omit this step,
and instead left-click on the program, the program will run but the following
will appear at the top in red "You must be a member of either the
Administrators group or the Performance Log Users group to enable the full
functionality of these tools."
For the second one, click the start orb and then click 'Control Panel'.
Depending on the setting of the control panel, do the following. For the
standard default configuration, click 'System and Maintenance' then
'Performance Information and Tools'. In the Classic View, you can select
'Performance Information and Tools' directly. Either way, click on it and
this brings up a page with the Windows Experience Index displayed. On the
left hand side is a section headed 'Tasks'. Select 'Advanced tools'. Select
the required option. Note that if there is a shield displayed, it means that
administrative credentials must be provided in order for the utility to run.
In actual fact, both of the programs require administrative credentials when
accessed in this manner. The first is ' Open Reliability and Performance
Monitor' and the other is 'Generate a system health report'.
Your other point about 'SECPOL'. This is the Security Policy Editor, and is
not available with the Home editions of Vista.
Dwarf

"GMD" wrote:

> I am trying to generate a system health report With Windows Vista Home
> Premium on my Sony notebook compter.
> When I try to do this it just produces a blank white screen.
> Reading into the help section, It tells me that I must be signed into
> the Local administrators group, And to use the command "SECPOL.EXE".
> I can not find this command in the computer.
> I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Thank You.
>

A footnote to my previous post. Although both the Security Policy and Group
Policy Editors are not available in the Home editions of Vista, it does not
mean that the settings covered by the editors cannot be changed. Most of the
items in the editors are settings in the registry, and these can be changed
with the aid of the registry editor, 'regedit.exe'. Some settings, however,
are not in the registry so they cannot be changed in this way. Both these
editors are, in effect, interfaces which make the changing of these settings
easier and more convenient. Since Home users rarely, if ever, need to change
any of these settings, the editors are only included in the Business,
Enterprise, and Ultimate editions of Vista.
Dwarf

Thank You for the information.

"Dwarf" wrote:

> A footnote to my previous post. Although both the Security Policy and Group
> Policy Editors are not available in the Home editions of Vista, it does not
> mean that the settings covered by the editors cannot be changed. Most of the
> items in the editors are settings in the registry, and these can be changed
> with the aid of the registry editor, 'regedit.exe'. Some settings, however,
> are not in the registry so they cannot be changed in this way. Both these
> editors are, in effect, interfaces which make the changing of these settings
> easier and more convenient. Since Home users rarely, if ever, need to change
> any of these settings, the editors are only included in the Business,
> Enterprise, and Ultimate editions of Vista.
> Dwarf
>