5. Improved trouble warning, diagnostics and recovery

Vista ties together several underpinning technologies with software that, if it works as billed, could cut down on help desk support issues. The operating system offers improved automatic recovery, diagnostics, a new recovery environment with a start-up repair tool and monitoring notification systems that companies can configure to send an SOS to IT help desk operations before a drive fails or whenever a device driver is causing instability. The revised event log and task manager should help IT personnel diagnose problems more readily.