Using Event Viewer to Diagnose Glitch

I rarely shut down our HP AI AIO desktop. Sometimes after a long sleep period (overnight) I awaken the pc to find a small, blue spinning circle on the desktop. This can take up to a few minutes to resolve, during which time I can do nothing. Is this normal? How can I use the Event Viewer to see what happened when it locked up? Specifically, where in the Event Viewer should I be looking?

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But I have not had any lockups since setting up this EventViewer CustomView so cannot be sure if it is a useful place to look or not.

Perhaps a better choice for an initial investigation that you're doing soon after a glitch would be looking in Event viewer's built-in Custom view Administrative Events because you can click on its Date-Time column to set everything in chronological order.

And there is every possibility that EventViewer does not record any events during your glitch.


Best of luck,
Denis