Summary
There is a plethora of tools for supporting and troubleshooting Windows clients. Task Manager, Resource Monitor, and Performance Monitory provide real-time insights into the activity of the apps and services. Event viewer provides a log of essential events that can help pinpoint an issue. Reliability Monitor can provide trending views over time to help pro-actively recognize issues or identify issues that are difficult to reproduce. Steps recording can be useful for both documenting issues and providing guidance to end users. The MMC interface provides a solution for creating custom consoles for frequent day-to-day tasks. Tool suites such as DaRT and Systernals can provide extra insights and capabilities during troubleshooting.