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(Greg Shultz) One of the first places that you probably turn to when troubleshooting problems in Windows XP is the Event Viewer. As you know, Event Viewer maintains logs that record information about program, security, and system events that occur on your system. While XP's Event Viewer is an effective tool that you can use to view and manage event logs, gather information about hardware and software problems, as well as monitor security events, it does have some shortcomings. Perhaps the biggest drawback is that XP's Event Viewer does such a good job at logging events, that the number of items in the log can be staggering. As such, sorting through the logs can be very daunting. Also, not all of the events are well-documented and many aren't documented at all--often leaving even the most experienced troubleshooter puzzled. |
