Tracking and managing failure-susceptible operations in a computer system

The present invention is directed to tracking and managing failure-susceptible operations in a computer system. In a preferred embodiment, the performance of failure-susceptible operations is monitored such that, when execution of the operating system is interrupted and then restarted, it can be determined which failure-susceptible operation was in progress at the point at which execution of the operating system was interrupted. A list is made of the operations that failed to execute to completion and subsequent invocation of operations on the list is inhibited. A user may review the list and select operations, allowing the selected operations to be subsequently invoked.