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    event viewer question..

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jl1989, Jul 1, 2009.

  1. jl1989

    jl1989 Notebook Evangelist

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    Heya, I just had a question about the event viewer thing in vista...

    Attached in a copy of a section in my event veiwers.. it's filled with caution, warning and criticals of boot up /shut down performance monitoring... most of the time it's not bad..but is there any way to get more information on what programs /events are causing theses slowdowns...


    (for shutdown I've kind of figured out... un-ejected ipod + itunes open = never shut down. )

    thanks.
     

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  2. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Have you scrolled through the "Details" tab at all?
     
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  3. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    Ahh, deep diving into the event viewer diagnostics-performance operational log.

    The critical errors are only timers that evaluate how long a specific event takes (100=startup, 200=shutdown, 300=standby)

    In Windows, estimation, these errors mean it took to long for something to happen.

    To see WHAT caused the slowdowns, look at the following succeeding numbers in the same category (101, 102, 103...etc; 201, 202, 203...etc, 301, 302, 302...etc)

    Look on the details of THOSE events to see what triggered the critical event log entries.

    You usually get some information from the 101,102, etc, and 301, 302, etc, but rarely get any useful info for Shutdown errors (201, 202, etc) .
     
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