Questions tagged [event-viewer]
Windows Event Viewer is a utility that shows users logs of events generated by the Windows operating system, and applications/services running on Windows.
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Trouble initializing an external hard drive / hard drive boots when plugged in but doesn't appear / hard drive hardware errors
I'm having some difficulties with my external hard drive, and I'm a bit stumped. I have a WD My Passport 2626 (WDBPKJ0050BBK-0B), which I bought not too long ago. I opened it, formatted it to exFAT, ...
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Windows restarted (event 13) without a preceding event 41 or 1074
I am trying to track down an issue that caused a Windows Surface to restart.
Event Viewer system log showing an event 13, 12, 6009, 6005, 12, 12, 7045, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12
I am testing a Flutter app ...
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dcom error 10016 in event viewer directly after crash
Here is what the problem used to be
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Event ID: 10016
Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation ...
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Windows Instability Issues
I've been having this problem that the Windows works fine for 10 - 15 minutes, but it then freezes. What I mean by freeze is that if I have a browser window open, I open a new tab, it's either ...
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Trying to Track Down App Crash with No 1000/1001 Event ID Event Viewer Log Items and no Minidumps in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps
The title says it all.
I'm trying to diagnose an elusive app crash in my program that mysteriously leaves no traces in Event Viewer or the minidump folder.
It's obvious the program crashes since the ...
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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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System Event ID 3 (FilterManager) caused system to be very slow
The other day my PC suddenly was very slow and laggy, despite being entirely up-to-date and Scannow and Scanhealth returning no problems. The only thing I could find was a few "Event ID 3" ...
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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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Windows Server 2019: Entries are being erased automatically from Windows Credential Manager, how can I figure out who/what is causing this?
I am running Windows Server 2019 version 1809 build 17763.5936. I am using Windows Credential Manager to securely store some login information in the Generic Credentials section which is utilized by ...
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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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Event viewer showing 'logon' events, even when I'm currently using that PC
I am trying to see logon events(entering password to access PC).
However, I see many logon events in the past 1hr, even though I was using PC in the past 1hr without loggin in/out.
Why is Event Viewer ...
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How to locate a device by container ID?
After bringing my machine up from a power failure, my Windows 11 machine pinged at me every few seconds, playing the "device was disconnected" sound. Pulling open the Device Manager ...
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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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Which user's app crashed in the Windows Event Logs?
I have an app that is crashing and leaving crash reports in the Windows Event Logs. They look something like this:
Is it possible to determine which user was running the app when it crashed? If not ...
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Windows Security Event ID 4800 (lock screen) on Win 11 Pro for Workstations
I have a task that is triggered on PC1 whenever the user locks their computer. This works fine.
I just set it up the same on PC2, but the Event ID 4800 is not logged on this machine when the user ...
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