Administrator: Elementary Dr. Watson Page 1 2 3 4 5 6

Computer -> Manage -> Event Viewer What Are the Clues? A computer goes down, or an application fails, hours of work are lost. As the Administrator, you need detailed information when the computer isn’t behaving right. There are several levels of administrative alerts: A Black Screen is a dead computer: it won’t boot. A Blue Screen of Death is a hardware problem. The computer halts and may or may not restart until the hardware problem is fixed. The Event Viewer reports all of the problems. The computer works, but it is not running right. A little history: In the early days of Windows NT, there was a program called Dr. Watson. The name is from the fictional character who helped Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective.   A Dr. Watson error message would pop on the screen indicating there was a software problem, close the errant program and make a log entry in the Event Viewer.