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re: Any way to see what a message was on a crash
Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 7:19 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Charlie Hadden
(396 messages posted)
First I want to apologize for the interruption there. Now, I would look into the
"Summary of Administrative Events". In here you open each category with the normal
use of the boxed '+' sign. They are nicely listed by:Critical, Error, Warning...
Even events happening in your Antivirus should show up. They are neatly listed by:
Last hour, 24 hours, and 7 days. This is going to be the friendly view. Also add
CheckDisk to you mental discriminator (thought process) while look this up. If you
are wise and carefully you can also clean up old junk (don't mess if you don't have
a clue) in here. Further down in the 'Log Summary' you can view by date Application
and hardware events chronologically. This means you can go back to the the exact
moment you experienced this CheckDisk. Finally, how are things running right now.
Is the computer otherwise OK? Do you realize that this was a fact of life in WIN
95. I know this is not Win 95 we are talking about but CheckDisk is a check and repair
service and it may have said nothing more than "NO ERRORS FOUND". Which is usually
the case. You can manually run a CheckDisk now and see if any bad news shows up currently.
Find the manufacturer (look in Device Manager) of the hard drive and see if they
offer any FREE diagnostic software on-line. That is always a good safety measure
if the H/D might be failing. And of course that is what we are worried about. I a
glad you noticed the event and want to take normal precautions, but don't let it
control your life. The machine does not control you. You control the machine. Don't
let it become a monster. If you are scared of losing data, get it copied right away.
Let me know how things go.
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