What is the Event Viewer, and should I care?

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So go to %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\CONFIG directory and check proporties. My guess they are read only and you have to change it to read -write permissions.
Angela

I was working on a computer with the same problem that Tony is having. I discovered that in the registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog
the settings for the three logs were missing. I exported the key from a working XP installation, edited the .reg file that was created so the the computer name in the first section matched the name of the broken computer, and merged the file into the corrupted registry. After a reboot, everything was fine.

Should I leave all these listing (I had 1800)in applications and systems or should I deleat them?

You can delete if you like. Or not. Unless there's a message about the log being full, you don't really need to.

Leo,
When I double click on the one of the event lines on one of my Windows 2000 servers, nothing happens. Then when I try to close Event viewer, I get a dialog box telling me to close the window that never opened. I have to use Task Manager to shut it down. What makes this happen?

Sound like the window's open, but not visible. Perhaps it's off screen? After you double click on the event viewer line, press ALT+Space, then M, then use the arrow keys to see if the window comes into view. If it does, just click on it and then it *should* appear on screen in the future.

REF: Diskeeper if you get the 1920 error goto sevices and start event log service this should solve it

My Event Viewer (XP SP2) doesn't show any new events. Here is the last message in Application even log: "Windows saved user MY-LAPTOP\IKK registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account."

I would appreciate any advise how to unfreeze the Event Viewer.

Thanks,
Slava

Im a System Administrator on our company. We are using Windows 2000 as an OS to our network, Time and date on our desktop is very important. Does time and date changing is possible to create a log on event viewer? Is there any way to detect if the user change time and date on their desktop? Thanks a lot... i would really appreciate for your help.

Not that I'm aware of, no. Right now I don't have any good suggestions either.

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