The Little Green Button writes all activity to the Windows Application Event Log. The following guide will explain how to access and interpret the log.
Shift-Right Click your Little Green Button and choose Activity Log
Double-click the LGB entry.
You will see a list of all events relating to Little Green Button
Alternatively: Open the event viewer
- Open your Start Menu
- Type 'event' to start a search
- Run the Event Viewer app
Navigate to the LGB section
- On the left side, unfold Applications and Services Logs
- Find the LGB section and select this
How to interpret the log entries
Not all errors and warnings mean there is something amiss. Some ID 0 Errors are related to the Little Green Button trying to find a physical button, others are messages to log the service starting
The Event ID will tell you what sort of event happened:
- X - The PC requesting assistance
- Y - Other PC's
- 3 - On X PC assistance required (button pressed)
- 4 - X no longer requires assistance (On X PC the button was double clicked to cancel alert)
- 5 - On X can see that Y responded to alert
- 6 - On Y (other computers), can see that X requested assistance
- 7 - On Y can see that X assistance no longer required (as X cancelled it)
- 8 - This individual Y PC responded to X