Advanced Tab (Computer)

The Advanced tab is used to configure properties for the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC). These settings only apply to the Transaction List, Transaction Statistics, and Trace Messages windows.

Note You will not be able to access the Help documentation from the Advanced tab of the My Computer property sheet.

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• Display Refresh  — Ranges from Infrequently to Frequently with a slider bar. Infrequently means the transaction windows are updated every 20 seconds, whereas Frequently means they're updated every 1 second. More frequent updates increase administrative overhead on the running transactions but also provide more current information.
• Transactions Shown  — Ranges from Very Old to New + Old with a slider bar. Selecting Very Old displays transactions only after they have been active for 5 minutes, while selecting New + Old displays transactions that have been active for 1 second or more.
• Trace  — Ranges from Less (faster MS DTC) to More (slower MS DTC) with a slider bar. The settings are as follows:
  • Send no traces.
  • Send only error traces.
  • Send error and warning traces.
  • Send error, warning, and informational traces (default).
  • Send all traces.

Log Properties

• Location  — Where to store the log file.
• Capacity  — The maximum size of the log file.

Reset Log

Used to update the log file after any changes have been made.

Caution Do not reset the MS DTC log file while there are unresolved transactions.

See the following topics for an overview of managing transactions:

• Understanding MTS Transactions
• Understanding MTS Transaction States

See the following topics to learn how to use the Transaction Statistics, Trace Messages, and Transaction List windows in the Explorer:

• Monitoring MTS Transactions
• Monitoring MTS Transactions with Windows 95

See Also

Managing MS DTC