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Better troubleshooting capabilities with Windows Vista's Event Viewer
One of the first places that you probably turn to when troubleshooting problems in Windows XP is the Event Viewer. As you know, Event Viewer maintains logs that record information about program, security, and system events that occur on your system. While XP's Event Viewer is an effective tool that you can use to view and manage event logs, gather information about hardware and software problems, as well as monitor security events, it does have some shortcomings. Perhaps the biggest drawback is that XP's Event Viewer does such a good job at logging events, that the number of items in the log can be staggering. As such, sorting through the logs can be very daunting. Also, not all of the events are well-documented and many aren't documented at all--often leaving even the most experienced troubleshooter puzzled.Another drawback in the system stems from the fact that Windows XP has other logs that are stored as text files on the hard disk. This means that when troubleshooting problems, you may have to scan through a bunch of text files in addition to scanning through Event Viewer.
Fortunately, Windows Vista's developers have spent a great deal of time and effort on improving Event Viewer! (continue at source)