Has anyone figured out how to get MS's event viewer errors out of the closet? I've unsuccessfully poked around trying to figure a way to at least hear an error sound or (wow) a popup for 'MS alerts' being logged in the event viewer (that could be a new oximoron). Oddly none of the freeware Event Viewer app's seem to offer such a highly useful part of what should be already included for that tool. I have IMAPI CD-ROM Burning Service that keeps stopping and until I figure out what's doing it, I'd like to not have to have the viewer open 24-7 to notify me when IMAPI' is stopping. Assuming an alert for a service stopping creates some sort of detectable performance issue, maybe Windows Performance Monitor could be used, but that thing's too techie for me to figure out. Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper

Most services can be viewed and have their settings changed. There are a few choices that allow one to keep the system running. See here to start. http://theeldergeek.com/services_gu... The issue isn't really the service as much as why it keeps stopping. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

Thanks for the tip. I forgot about that site. It helped immensely. Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper