HOWTO Use Vista Event Log to diagnose hardware problem?

External Since: Sep 28, 2008 Posts: 2

Hi all,

I have a problematic USB flash issue on my computer:
USB flash drive runs well in safe mode
However, in normal mode, after a 10 seconds to 40 seconds period of
plugging in the flash drive, the flash drive will become usably
sluggish.
I cannot effectively locate (with just tasklist utilities) what
services / processes that are triggered by the USB flash plugging in
is/are causing the problem. I am wondering if I can use the event log
of Vista, or some other ways to locate the source of this problem?

Thanks in advance!

- John

External Since: May 06, 2007 Posts: 1498

"John Wong" <thjwong RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b4720dce-09e8-4393-8edf-d7338545a7ef@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problematic USB flash issue on my computer:
> USB flash drive runs well in safe mode
> However, in normal mode, after a 10 seconds to 40 seconds period of
> plugging in the flash drive, the flash drive will become usably
> sluggish.
> I cannot effectively locate (with just tasklist utilities) what
> services / processes that are triggered by the USB flash plugging in
> is/are causing the problem. I am wondering if I can use the event log
> of Vista, or some other ways to locate the source of this problem?
>

Vista is a NT based O/S and you can enable its auditing that will be
recorded in logs viewable by the Event Viwer.

http://www.rhyshaden.com/nt_audit.htm