[pcductape] Re: digital camera software / RUNTIME ERROR?
- From: "Carl" <ctm007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:04:38 -0600
MessageOk,
Dr Watson has been around for a long time. I guess I should take advantage of
him.
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Firestone
To: pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: [pcductape] Re: digital camera software / RUNTIME ERROR?
Hi Carl,
Datatrace in the example before has to do with monitoring what goes on during
a certain period of time and the program traces the data - hence datatrace.
In very general terms, when you have an error message and it wants to send
data to mummy microsoft that is good old Dr. Watson at work - Dr. Watson is
actually a debugger and what it does is gathers all the info currently [or at
the time of the crash] in RAM and in Windows and analyzes it and tries to
figure out what went wrong. That is the data that is sent to mummy.
Bootvis is in Win XP but does not run every boot - it sets [in part] the
prefetch cache etc that enables a faster booting time for XP.
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From: pcductape-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pcductape-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Carl
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:04 PM
To: pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pcductape] Re: digital camera software / RUNTIME ERROR?
Hi Lisa,
Hi Vic,
I searched my computer running Windows XP and could not find bootvis.exe so I
concluded it is not a file necessary for xp. So, I go to the website for
bootvis at:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVis.mspx
and I read that:
"The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows
XP."
So, I have to ask why bother with bootvis.exe in the 1st place.
Vic, thanks for explaining data trace. Is that also what we see when an
error occurs and the software has to shut down and when it does, a small window
pops up, asking if I want to send a report to Microsoft and if I say yes, then
it gives an error message where more information can be obtained (sometimes).
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Firestone
To: pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:03 PM
Subject: [pcductape] Re: digital camera software / RUNTIME ERROR?
Carl - Lisa,
Forget about bootvis - it is only a program used to diagnose booting times
and c lean out the prefetch folder in Win 2K and XP. It only runs when you tell
it to and does not run all the time, besides it is only an exe file and
therefore the uninstall is just a delete or name-change [if you want to keep
the program but want to avoid it being used. inadvertently. Carl, a data trace
is just that - it is not something that changes the way a comp works but rather
a log of what goes on, besides I think Lisa's comp doesn't have Hyper Threading.
As for your explorer issues, could be any of a million things - hard to
diagnose at this point.
As for the install - how are you installing this software - direct from the
net, or from a CD or from an installation package on your comp.
Let me know
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