Your client's workstation is experiencing frequent and unexplained reboots. After verifying there is no overheating and ensuring all hardware components are properly seated, which of the following Windows tools should you use first to further troubleshoot the system instability?
Use the Reliability Monitor to review system stability history.
Run the Disk Defragmenter to optimize file placement on hard drives.
Set up counters in Performance Monitor to track system performance.
Perform a System Restore to revert the computer to an earlier state.
The Reliability Monitor is a Windows utility that provides a timeline of system events and reliability history, including hardware and software failures, warnings, and informational events. It is especially useful in diagnosing intermittent problems such as unexplained reboots, and might provide insight into the cause of the instability. A Disk Defragmenter is not typically related to system reboots, System Restore would revert the system to a previous point which could remove recent updates or changes that are causing issues, but it's not a diagnostic tool. The Performance Monitor is a more advanced tool for system performance analysis and wouldn't necessarily provide clear insights on sudden reboots.
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