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Detailed testing information. What is HP Health Check? HP Health Check is a utility that is designed to alert you to potential conditions on your hard drive, and can suggest fixes, performance enhancements, and updates on a variety of issues. It also provides you with notifications of current solutions that are targeted to your specific notebook model. Running HP Health Check performs different types of tests, which include security, performance, hardware, and maintenance tests.
Health Check lists both critical and recommended updates. After the tests are complete, HP Health Check generates a list of actions that must be performed to improve the condition of your computer. Urgent issues are flagged as "attention needed" and highlighted in red. Health Check also provides informational links to help you learn how to use specific computer features. HP constantly revises and updates HP Health Check to optimize the performance of your computer and to solve common issues.
Therefore, it is very important to keep this utility up to date. What does HP Health Check examine on my computer? HP Health Check scans your computer and examines four areas of concern. Security — scans the level of security on your computer and determines if it is vulnerable to known security threats that your antivirus software may not catch. If you do not have antivirus software installed, HP Health Check flags this as a problem. HP recommends installing antivirus software on every computer that connects to the internet.
Hardware — tests all system hardware, such as sound cards, webcams, and other devices to determine if they are working properly. If any of your hardware devices are not working properly, HP Health Check provides recommendations, such as improving configuration or installing updated drivers, if necessary. Maintenance — tests your computer and provides guidance to help you keep your computer in optimal condition.
For detailed information about which areas and programs HP Health Check can examine and troubleshoot, please see the Detailed testing information section of this document. To launch HP Health Check, follow the steps below. Click Start and then Help and Support.
Health Check scans your computer and then generates a list of items that require correction or repair to improve the condition of the computer. A green bar on the report indicates that the condition of the computer is good, and that no action is required.
Figure : HP Health Check, no action needed. Occasionally, there may be issues on the computer that are not urgent, but repairing them improves the performance of the computer. These are highlighted in yellow, and marked as action recommended.
Figure : HP Health check, action recommended. Urgent issues that may cause major problems are flagged as attention needed and are highlighted in red. Figure : HP Health Check, attention needed. There are clickable icons that display next to each issue that is listed. Each icon represents a different action that you can direct HP Health Check to take.
More information — Clicking this icon displays a document that is available on HP Help and Support which explains the issue in more detail. Quick-scan — re-scans the last component in the list to verify that the issue has been resolved. Remind me later — dismisses the issue for now, and then prompts you again the next time that HP Health Check scans your computer.
You can choose to correct each problem individually or to let Health Check correct all problems at once by clicking Repair All. HP Health Check is set to check for updates to its own software and problem definitions every seven days by default.
You can also update it manually at any point in time. Each of the tables below provides more specific information about some conditions that HP Health Check might detect on some computers. Security Object. Detects that the default Guest account is enabled. Provides information on the dangers of having the default Guest account enabled and offers to disable it.
Detects an outdated version of HP Update containing a known security issue and provides an update to the software with the security issue removed. Detects an outdated version of Quick Launch button software containing a known security issue and provides an update to the software with the security issue removed.
Provides information on password backup options and how to take advantage of them. Detects an outdated version of Norton Internet Security and provides an updated version. Detects when the Internet Explorer phishing filter is turned off. Provides information on phishing scams, phishing filters, and offers to turn the phishing filter on. Detects when System Restore is not enabled. Provides information on System Restore and offers to turn it on. Detects when Windows Update is disabled.
Provides information on the usage of Windows Update and opens up the Windows Update configuration panel. Offers to repair the issue to re-enable HP ProtectSmart on the system. Performance Object. Checks the system for the existence of a Windows.
Provides information on the purpose of the Windows. Detects when Hibernation is turned off. Provides information on Hibernation and offers to turn the Hibernation feature back on. Provides information on a known Vista bug related to booting notebooks connected to external monitors with the notebook lid closed. Checks the system to determine if less than 2 gigabytes of RAM is found. Detects when there is a significant amount of unallocated hard disk space on the hard drive.
Performs a disk operation to make the storage space available for general use. Hardware Object. Detects an issue with an HP integrated webcam being installed with incorrect webcam drivers and offers to remove the incorrect drivers. Detects HP Pavilion dv, dv, dv, Compaq Presario V, and V series notebooks and notifies that there may be a free repair available.
Opens the relevant HP. Detects the presence of an HP integrated webcam on a Pavilion notebook. Provides information on battery charge and provides a link to the HP web site where a replacement battery may be purchased. Detects when a notebook battery needs calibration.
