Rainer Meier schrieb: (...) > I am simply astonished about this ridiculous small amount of space > Microsoft seems to assign to the event logs (512kB each) I wonder how Ah, you're just being ignorant. It's by design: it has an advantage that it perfectly fits on a single, 720k floppy. > I just checked on Vista and the default settings seem to have changed: > Maximum log size (KB): 20480 > (x) Overwrite events as needed (oldest events first) > > So even Microsoft seems to have learned something: Logging is important > and helps fixing bugs much faster. And event log should not block new > entries when it is "full" since the latest entries are usually the most > valuable ones. Unfortunately these settings are not default in Windows > XP. I will release an updated WPKG script soon which handles such errors > properly with a kind of "fallback" mode. You can configure a Windows system to make a BSOD when the Event Log is full. I doubt many (non-paranoid) people use it, though. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org |