The event viewer contains a history of things that have happened. It does not require maintenance. The file that holds the history is automatically purged when items get too old or when the file exceeds a certain size. Allowing items to remain - or removing all items - does not cause other prblems.
If you have errors and are concerned about them, you need to provide at minimum the following information from reading the entries: a) Event ID b) Event Source c) How often that event is being reported. d) Relationship of this event to other logged events (e.g. it's always event 51, followed by event 3704 at about the same timestamp) You can get self-help on event entries at www.eventid.net. Also on deleting events from the Event Viewer, you cannot delete specific entries. You can clear the entire history (in each category), but as I said before, there's no reason to do that. If you get the same errors logged over and over, it will just fill up again. -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robbie Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Computer running slow Carl wrote - Re: Computer running slow The Performance and Processes tab of Task Manager (taskmgr.exe) are your friends. Look for low amounts of Available Physical Memory, or large numbers for Commit Charge Total. Look for Processes using high percentages of CPU. Does the hard drive light stay turned on continuously (or nearly so) while the system is being slow? If so check in Event Viewer under System for errors. A failing hard disk could cause the behavior you describe. My PC is not running slow, but following your directions and curious, I looked for errors under Event Viewer and found that I had 774 errors under the Applications tab, 2,442 under the System tab and 774 under the Saved Application Log tab (think these are duplicates of Application Tab, they look the same). Are these necessary to leave in the corresponding tabs or can they be deleted safely. Thank you -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
