Why would my computer show in administative tools that I have thousands of error and warning message
Both of my computers that are on wifi were almost like I was on dial up for a few days even though my sons computer that is wired was running fast on comcast, I went on the internet and saw some people say I should try changing the channel of my router so I tried but coundn't figure it out. I reset my router back to the factory reset on accident then all of a sudden I counldn't get any device except my laptop back online . I had to call linksys support and pay for someone to go on my laptop remotely and spend about an hour for them to get it workimg, it would not accept the passwords that were supposed to be the default. Anyway after he got it going again he said he thinks he knows why I was having the problem in the first place so he asked me to go to the control panel and click administrative tools and something else and to click on errors warnings and critical and it shows that bot my computers have thousands of these error and warnings in them and I don't know what they are and how they got there and how to get rid of them and keep it from happening again.
Hi badcomputer
Welcome to the Community Forums.
I suspect that you are being baffled by techno babble...and from what you describe I suspect that what saw were entries from the Event Viewer, that displays system logs. And as you may imaginie this will display logs for just about every activity under the sun that you copmputer undertakes. Whilst many of them look alarming to the lay person most of them will not cause the computer any issues.
You should not get rid of them and certainly there is nothing that you can/should overtly do to stop them from happening again (as some will because that is how the core system operates) unless you can be provided with very specific information about what the issue is, what causes it and what not to do so that it does not happen again.
My recomendation is that if you system is working fine now then just forget about this. If a specialist needs to use this feature they will decide and know how to...the average should not need to be concerned with this.
Hope that helps?
Regards, Baldrick
Welcome to the Community Forums.
I suspect that you are being baffled by techno babble...and from what you describe I suspect that what saw were entries from the Event Viewer, that displays system logs. And as you may imaginie this will display logs for just about every activity under the sun that you copmputer undertakes. Whilst many of them look alarming to the lay person most of them will not cause the computer any issues.
You should not get rid of them and certainly there is nothing that you can/should overtly do to stop them from happening again (as some will because that is how the core system operates) unless you can be provided with very specific information about what the issue is, what causes it and what not to do so that it does not happen again.
My recomendation is that if you system is working fine now then just forget about this. If a specialist needs to use this feature they will decide and know how to...the average should not need to be concerned with this.
Hope that helps?
Regards, Baldrick
Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete Beta Tester v9.0.24.49, imaged by Macrium Reflect v7.2
Thank you for the fast response . I thought that might be the case especially since they tried to sell me a fix for it at the end . Both my computers seem to be working fine though. Thanks again
Hi badcomputer
You are most welcome...if you are interested in learning more about the Event Log and how it works I would just Google...there are some very good references avaialble...but to be honest in all the years I have been involved with Windows I have only had recourse to really need to delve in there a couple of times.
So well done for not being suckered by the "...tried to sell me a fix for it at the end" gambit. I am sure that you will know as and when you are in need of such technical assistance. And the old maxim "if it ain't broke don't fix it" really applies here...IMHO.
Regards, Baldrick
You are most welcome...if you are interested in learning more about the Event Log and how it works I would just Google...there are some very good references avaialble...but to be honest in all the years I have been involved with Windows I have only had recourse to really need to delve in there a couple of times.
So well done for not being suckered by the "...tried to sell me a fix for it at the end" gambit. I am sure that you will know as and when you are in need of such technical assistance. And the old maxim "if it ain't broke don't fix it" really applies here...IMHO.
Regards, Baldrick
Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete Beta Tester v9.0.24.49, imaged by Macrium Reflect v7.2
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