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Table Of Contents  CertiGuide to A+ (A+ 4 Real)
 9  Chapter 4: Diagnosing and Troubleshooting in the Windows OS
      9  Troubleshooting Utilities

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Application Log Files and Properties



So when application or system crashes or does not function the way it should, check those logs to see what is happening. Remember that on Windows NT you can have services, background processes that do not interact with a user. Those logs are a means for such services to tell you when something gets wrong.

Logs write to to files, right click on the name of the log and choose properties to see which file.

Figure 332: Application Log Properties

 


Figure 333: React on a Log Full Error

 


Log Size Settings

Please notice those Log size settings. Logs grow very quickly so you need to have some control. Typically, you’ll choose oldest log events to be overwritten when the log size limit is reached. The option Do not overwrite events (clear log manually) is good if you don’t want to loose any events.. This way you be sure to have your system behavior documented in every point in time. But the draw back is that you have to react when the log gets full. One way to do this is to right click the log name and choose Clear all events. Before the log is being cleared you get asked to save the current log to another file for later use.


If you need an explanation of a particular event and error code, there will be a link in an event for a help center. You can also check here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/support/ee.asp

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