Questions tagged [event-log]
The Event Log is a set of logs in a Windows system that are used by default by the Windows system, system component and many applications to record events.
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Webcam spams my System event log with two events each second
I'm using a Dell Precision 5680 laptop running Windows 11 (with my company's standard corporate malware). The laptop has a webcam, which works fine.
Looking at my Event Log monitor, in the System ...
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Software Solutions for "SMART Hard Disk Error 301"
I've been getting the SMART Hard Disk Error 301 for a month now on every boot up. It asks me to replace hard drive but I want to know if there's any software fixes I can proceed with instead of ...
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Windows Search is missing from Event Viewer
In trying to diagnose this problem I wanted to look at any logging messages for Windows Search indexing. According to many pages (including on Microsoft sites), the log should be at Applications and ...
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Checking for USB device disconnects on Windows (similar to journalctl on Linux)
I have these kiosk machines, (pretty much regular computers but in kiosk form factor), they have these built in USB scanners.
The scanners keep disconnecting and reconnecting at random, and it's ...
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Windows audit logging for RemoteRegistry key access
Is there any way to enable auditing in Windows of registry events such as a user opening a registry key over the network thorough the RemoteRegistry service (access via named pipe winreg)?
I've tried ...
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Memory WHEA-Logger Warning with code 47
A couple of weeks ago, my computer unexpectedly turned off with fans working. I turned it off by long pressing the power button, wanting to restart. But when I tried to start it again, I faced the ...
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Disable WindowsUpdate_trace_log
Every day windows creates a number of folders in the C:\Windows\Temp folder each with many individual .etl log files inside.
C:\Windows\Temp\_9ABC4DDF-732F-4F70-820A-9C186380CECA
WindowsUpdate....
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Internet goes offline after starting Asp.net project on Visual studio
I just moved to a new PC with Win11 and I'm facing this issue.
After I start this asp.net project in Visual studio internet stops working for some reason after few seconds, it uses IIS express to run ...
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Monitoring Remote Login Attempts on Windows 8 via Event Viewer
We are using a test PC called pc-test, running Windows 8 (Version 6.3, Build 9600). Multiple users have access to this machine, but at any given time, only one user can connect. We have enabled Remote ...
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How to restore Event Log Files or view Blue screens without the Event Log Files?
Someone else deleted my Event Logs with the following command:
wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {wevtutil cl "$_"}
I wanted to know whether Blue screens occurred while those people had my PC.
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I have WSL disabled in Windows Features, and I've uninstalled all WSL related software. But getting a WSL related error in the Event Viewer
I'm getting the following error (Event ID: 7023) in Event Viewer:
The WSLService service terminated with the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because ...
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Windows USB event trace with Logman - how to open ETW file for inspection?
As usual, Windows help is 100% accurate but 100% useless (for this question, anyway).
I created an event log following the instructions here:
how-to-capture-a-usb-event-trace
Trouble is, they don't ...
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Suddenly getting application instability after waking laptop from sleep mode
Last Tuesday, I put my laptop into sleep mode before a power outage occurred, and after the 7 hours of no power, I booted it back up to find it seemingly okay, but quickly discovered an issue after ...
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Right clicking caused windows to corrupt
This has happened 3 or 4 times now
This time I right clicked on my desktop and everything got a white faded out look. Task manager showed Exploere.exe was not responding and rebooting take me to the ...
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Up to date reference material for Group Policy Object: "Audit Object Access"
I have been investigating this policy for work, and have found this MS article. Two things concern me about it:
Despite the 2021 date, the event codes appear to be out-of-date. For example, this site ...
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