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Is there a windows equivilant for the mac utility "console"?

Asked by monsoon (2528points) October 8th, 2008 from iPhone

You know, a log of actions and errors and such.

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The closest thing in Vista is called the reliability and performance monitor (RaPM). Its an incredible resource hog. It logs events in a different schema; instead of taking the output of apps as a bulletin board (as the console is), the RaPM mainly monitors task failures and app crashes. There is not, to my knowledge a collective place for runtime notes to be logged, though.

Win XP doesn’t have this RaPM.

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robmandu's avatar

Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer

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maccmann's avatar

And after you dig into the Event Viewer, go here to decrypt it: link

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