Vista and Adm Events

Hello, we hope someone can help us. My husband and I are senior citizens and purchased a Toshiba Satellite back in May (I believe) with Vista Home Premium, SP1 and IE7. It has been running quite nicely so far. Using Verizon DSL. (We remember a neighbor said they looked at their Adm. Events on new HP Vista and also seeing many warnings and errors, so we think this might not just be us with this problem.)
Yesterday, we happened to look in the Event Viewer/ Custom Views / Adm Events and see many, many Errors and Warnings, which has gotten us very frightened. We cannot afford to purchase another notebook and we wonder if someone would tell us what is happening with the following Adm Events. Please help us.



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P.S. I know a friend of ours deleted many programs (many, games, Office) from the notebook saying we would never use those programs.)

 

It is hard to tell what warnings and errors there are from this screenshot. However, if you go to View and select Preview Pane it would be easier to see what is going on. But, to be honest, unless you are running into problems or random shutdowns I would not be overly concerned about this. These are mostly just for diagnostic purposes when things are going wrong. I have 2800 events and my computer runs just fine.

 

If you observe no problems, then these can usually be ignored

 

Vista is very chatty with Event reporting. It can generate tons of events for totally benign things.

 

Thank you kindly. That makes us feel a little better. Do you also have "Errors" among your 2800 events? Similar to mine?
We heard that adding SP1 to Vista might have caused some problems. If necessary, we can can show what we found for the Errors at Preview Page.
Or, do you think we should just forget about the Event Viewer and the Errors/Warnings it is showing. Are we worrying too much?
Our Toshiba is running just fine, as far as we are concerned. Thanks again.
Alice

 

Yeah there are errors and warnings all throughout my list. I would only concern myself with this log if you are having problems. Otherwise I would not worry about it. It is good to be familiar with these logs though, so that you may be able to quickly troubleshoot any problems should they arise in the future.

 

If you are not having problems, don't look there if it frightens you.

 

I am in my second year in College and about to start my 3rd.

But my teachers has told us there will always have some come kind of error in the Event viewer. Unless you computer just crashes with out reason. Then you go there and check what happend.

Not trying to be mean, but did he no what he was doing. I met someone in my class last year and though to uninstall was just to delete the files and folder. lol But sometimes if you uninstall something there will be errors in that. If you really want to be sure, I like CCleaner great program.

I just check my event viewer, and I have 3 errors in the last 24 hours. But total from when I got this computer 824. And i didn't seen anything in the last 24 h went wrong. hope that helps

 

ouch, i just looked at mine, and since like late april i have had like 6000 Events, and like 35% are Errors. WTH!?



Here i am thinking my computer has never ran better. Now im upset. LOL.

 

Don't worry about it. Most events are generated due to minor errors or simple notifications. Usually this happens on boot-up of the machine, and while it can slow down boot times it doesn't effect the computer at all once the system is booted.

The events I'm seeing do not look like they have anything to do with device drivers. The Defender events could be nothing more than just that Defender isn't updated with the latest definition files.

If you want more details though you'll have to expand that source window. The dates don't mean a whole lot.

This article I found might be able to help you. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Monitoring-Event-Logs-Windows-Vista.html

I'll need to go through my event logs at some point as well. I had to do it with XP to fix some minor device driver errors that, once fixed, helped boot times a bit. But my new laptop hasn't had time to run in a stable state long enough yet.

IT can be something as simple as the computer failing to get an updated DHCP address from the servers the first time it tries because of a connection issue or slow response time. It means almost nothing as far as affecting performance.

 

There's a post around here somewhere (search on my username) with a .bat/.cmd file that clears all those entries (on Vista).

 

That's typical... mine is similar. Every device timeout, network timeout, application hanging/crashing generates an error in there. Application installs often create warnings from Windows Defender. If you're not having any noticeable problems in regular use, then just ignore it.

Vista runs a lot better for me with SP1 installed, so I suggest leaving it installed.