July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
669 pages
16h 40m
English
book
Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Darril Gibson
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5.1. Identifying and Resolving Performance Issues
When a system starts having problems, you want to figure out the source of the problem as quickly as possible. One of the ways to get a head start on that goal is to become familiar with the tools you have available for troubleshooting.
In this section, you'll learn about the following tools:
Event Viewer
Action Center
Services
Power Options
5.1.1. Analyzing Logs with Event Viewer
One of the most important tools you always have available to you on Windows 7 is Event Viewer. Events are constantly logged to various logs on Windows 7, and when you know what logs to look at, you can quickly determine the problem.
Windows 7 is constantly logging events on the health and performance of your system, and ...