Windows Explored

A knee jerk reaction of mine when troubleshooting unspecified errors from users is to take a look at the Windows Event Viewer and find recent error and warning events. Often times, though, you may not see anything being reported by the operating system. It’s easy then in Windows XP to miss those generic Information – Application Popup events in the System log:

These, too, are errors and contain the text of the error encountered but may otherwise dismissed and unnoticed by the user. They may contain some important clues to the problem when you or the user are unable to reproduce the them.