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Friday, June 17, 2005

I’m mostly posting this here for my own sake, but perhaps someone else is having the issue out there too.

Basically, my computer rebooted unexpectedly today (first time in a long time), so I whipped open the Event Viewer to see what happened. Well, to my surprise, the Event Viewer logs hadn’t been updated since November, 2004. That was quite a surprise to me, that’s for sure. I’m not sure if this stopped working when I installed SP2 or what, but it was an easy fix. Basically, I went into the properties for each log (right click the log in Event Viewer and select Properties), and chose the option “Overwrite events as needed” and cleared the logs. Once I did that, everything started working normally. Oh well! Most likely, I probably did something stupid a while ago that hosed it. At least it’s working now!

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Comments [7]

Friday, January 05, 2007 10:33:18 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hi.
Thanks. I had exactly the problem you described. And although being pretty experienced at computers, after trying a couple things over the course of a day or so, enabling event services, alerts, etc, I still couldn't figure it out. So finally I did a search and lo & behold found your blog, and did exactly what you said above and sure enough, that fixed it! :)

I speculate that the cause of the problem of the event viewer being stopped, or rather running but not working, is that it couldn't write events to the logfile. It might be because the log file got corrupted, or reached its maximum size, or something such as that. Although my setting was set to overwrite events older than 7 days, not 'as needed' it could have encountered a problem with the DATE and time setting and not realized that it was permitted to dispense with some of those previous log entries from the past that were still showing. In any case, clearing the log worked. And I have now set it to "Overwrite events as needed" just like you proposed.

So just wanted to let you know that you posting this, did help someone.

Thanks!

Zinger

Sunday, March 25, 2007 8:51:27 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Just had the same problem and this solved it. Thanks a lot for posting!

Gustavo

Wednesday, July 04, 2007 9:48:48 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Just a quick tip. If you've searched online for a way to make a transparent, borderless, or shaped window in WPF (formerly known as Avalon) and you've found the Win32 Interop method of HwndSource and UsesPerPixelOpacity, you might want to just switch to using a Popup with AllowsTransparency set to True. Just remember that currently (February 2006 CTP) this will mean that hardware acceleration won't be used (oh please, please, please add hardware support...)

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Friday, August 17, 2007 4:17:22 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Not that it matters since this was posted quite some time ago. But this worked for me also. Thanks for the tip! This is the only page I found that fixed my problem.

Mark

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