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I ran the Memory Diagnostics Tool in Windows 7 64 bit. I have 16G RAM. It reported hardware problems. This is a new system with new memory. When the system rebooted I was expecting an icon in the task bar for the test results. I do not see it. I ran the test twice.

How do I access the test results?

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  • open Event Viewer (search it in windows start or go to Control Panel\ Administrative Tools: view event logs) then expand 'Windows Log', right-click on 'System', click 'Find' and type 'memory'. push 'Find Next' to find first event related to memory and see results. For errors, the message is like as: 'The Windows Memory Diagnostic tested the computer's memory and detected hardware errors...'
    – S.Serpooshan
    Aug 29, 2016 at 3:48
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    Sigh... I followed all the answers and the results are nowhere to be found in Windows 10.
    – pacoverflow
    Jul 20, 2022 at 6:24

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Go to Event viewer , its under Administrative Tools in Control Panel.

Once EV loads (may take a while) go to Applications and Services Logs on the left, expand it and drill down to Microsoft>Windows>MemoryDiagnostics-Results

see if there are any logs in there.

You might also look in Action Center or Performance Monitor for messages.

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  • If the log at the above location is empty, does it mean the memory checks out clean?
    – kpax
    Mar 15, 2012 at 2:40
  • It could mean it is not enabled to log the diagnostic event.
    – Moab
    Mar 17, 2012 at 14:25
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    I found @JonOfAllTrades answer below more useful as Windows Logs/System actually indicates whether a problem was found.
    – decates
    Aug 1, 2014 at 11:04
  • Same for me, quote decates: "I found @JonOfAllTrades answer below more useful as Windows Logs/System actually indicates whether a problem was found."
    – PathToLife
    Nov 21, 2014 at 10:14
  • For them who wants a shorter way: Win+R->eventvwr.msc
    – Jet
    Aug 1, 2015 at 18:02
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On my system (Windows 7), I saw an event in Application and Services Logs | Microsoft | Windows | MemoryDiagnostics-Results, per Moab's earlier answer, but it was blank (just "Windows Memory Diagnostic results" on the General tab, and a binary string on the Details tab).

Per a forum post, the Windows Logs | System log may be the right place to look, and sure enough this did have complete records.

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  1. Start Menu
  2. Type "Event Viewer" and press the Enter key
  3. The Event Viewer will open. In the left pane of the window, disclose Windows Logs and select System
  4. Widen the window to show the contents of the Middle pane

  5. Choose menu item Action -> Filter Current Log.

  6. Set Filter "Event sources:" to "MemoryDiagnostics-Results" and press the Enter key to apply it and/or simply click the OK button to close the Filter Current Log window.

Event sources

  1. The middle pane should now show 2 logs per memory diagnostic check. Click on one of them and view the results in the lower middle pane within the "Details" tab. If the memory tests passed, it will say in the "Friendly View" display:

- UserData

- Results

CompletionType Pass

Example result

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For me, on Windows 10, at first I didn't get anything either, but after 15min a notification popped up and then I had the MemoryDiagnostics-Results entry in Event Viewer.

I think it's related to the ProcessMemoryDiagnosticEvents Task that has to run first to generate the results, which it apparently only does after 10 min of idle and on AC power.

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  • Thanks! That's friggin silly.
    – evilkos
    Sep 19, 2023 at 11:38

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