The reason your PC boots slowly is already logged somewhere hidden.

A forgotten Windows feature that explains performance drops clearly.

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...

First and foremost, users need to install the Windows Server Essentials Log Collector Package. For that, check out the steps to learn how to do it: In case, users need to reinstall Log Collector ...

There does not seem to be any mechanism in Windows XP to log power state changes. In particular, I want to log when HDDs spin down and spin up, as they are configured to do after one hour in Windows ...