Month of January , 2009

Repair Vista's reliability and performance monitor

I discovered that the reliability index on our laptop hadn't been updating since July, and I couldn't get the index to start updating again. After some trial and error I discovered that the main system event log had also stopped updating and was telling me that the log was corrupted. When I cleared the main event log the performance index started updating again too. I've described more details about the problem, and the solution, below.