Improve the quality of help and support in XP

The Help and Support Center in Windows XP has never been the greatest resource for trying to troubleshoot complicated issues.

First Open Help and Support by clicking on Start >> Help and Support.

The Help and Support Center window will open up.  From here under the Pick a task header click on Use Tools to view your computer information and diagnose problems.

Next under the Tools section on the left side select “My Computer Information”.

Then on the right hand side under the My Computer Information section click on any of the shown topics.  For this example I will select ‘View system information about this computer’.

This opens up a graphical report of your system which can really help as it is easy to read and determine what is going on with your machine.

There are other programs that can help with these types of reports, but if you can get by with this trick, no reason to install the extra software!

Written by Mysticgeek, an author at How-To Geek.