A Windows 11 Pro laptop has displayed the stop code "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" three times this week. The technician wants a quick, graphical timeline that highlights critical errors such as Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) events, application crashes, and other reliability problems without digging through raw Event Viewer logs. Which built-in Windows utility should the technician open to review this historical stability data?
Reliability Monitor (opened from Control Panel > Security and Maintenance > View reliability history or by running perfmon /rel) charts a daily or weekly stability index and lists critical events-including BSODs, application failures, and driver issues-making it an ideal first stop when investigating recurring crashes. Event Viewer also holds the data but is less visual, Device Manager focuses on hardware/driver status, and Performance Monitor tracks real-time resource usage rather than historical crash information.
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