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Looking for Windows 98 Logging or Troubleshooting Utilities 1

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BlueScr33n

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Feb 10, 2003
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Trying to determine why this thing is blue screening but the only logging resource I have is hwinfo /ui. Are there any other methods that could help me diagnose?
 
Also forgot about Dr Watson .
If you frequently get illegal operation or invalid page fault error messages in Windows 98, there is a great utility that Microsoft included which you can use to troubleshoot, find the cause of, and correct those errors to prevent yourself from getting them again. It also logs all errors so you can report them to Microsoft or your
software program's vendor so that they can fix the problem.

To start this program:

Click Start, Run.
Type "DrWatson" and press ENTER.
An icon for Dr. Watson will appear on your taskbar tray.
( Next to the time )
Double click it. From here on you can view detailed information about your Win98 system.

Recommend putting a shortcut to Dr. Watson in your Startup group, especially if you frequenty experience crashes, as it will automatically log all illegal operations and invalid page faults/general protection faults that you might get.

More help here .
 
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