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Is there a way to access a log of all recent activity that happened on my computer (MB Air)?
So I logged onto this unrestricted WiFi network, and I just want to be safe and make sure no one has been messing around on my computer. Anyone know a way to access a log of all recent activity on my ...
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Service Control Manager Error Event ID: 7016
I am getting all the time the below error in Windows Event Viewer, does anyone know why or what does it mean ?
Service Control Manager Event ID: 7016
Message: The LitModeCtrl service has reported ...
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Lenovo Power Dial Software causing Errors
I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit Lenovo IdeaCentre K330. Recently i checked my Windows Event Viewer and i see that I have got a lot of the following error's:
SideBySide Event ID: 33
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - Event logs not being generated
I have deployed an ASP.NET MVC website on my web server, which is IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition.
When browsing my website, I get a 503 (Service Unavailable) status code after ...
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Run scheduled task when drive is mounted
Is there any event log entry that is written a new drive (e.g. a RAM drive, a TrueCrypt drive) is mounted, which I could use to trigger a task on?
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Window 7 Event Log Freezing. How to Fix?
When you open the event log, it freeze for several seconds. and a prompt comes out say it's not responding. but if you ignore it and wait for several seconds, it will resume normal. And you will found ...
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Powershell script hogging CPU resources
My computer is a HP laptop running Windows 7 64-bit. A Google search looking for a solution to generate an event in the eventlog any time I switch from AC to battery or vice versa, landed me to:
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Windows 7 PC crashes / stops upon reboot
I have an Hewlett Packard (fairly basic) Windows 7 PC, that crashed (no blue screen, the screen simply went black with no response from any peripherals) and then once the machine is powered off and ...
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Log screensaver activity
I'd like to know if there's any way to see logs of the screensaver activity. Something like that:
02/02/2013 10:16:47 Screensaver started
02/02/2013 10:17:23 Screensaver stopped
I'm running Win7 ...
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Windows Event Forwarding between two computer out of a domain
I've got two computers and I want to set up event forwarding between them.
Source computer is out of a domain, another is in some Domain. I tried to configure source initiated event subscrption but it ...
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Why does my computer turn itself off?
I have an old laptop with Windows 7 system, and I want to use it as a home server. I put it under a desk, and control it via Remote Desktop Connection on a MacBook Pro. Both the laptop and the macbook ...
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How to empty Windows 8 event log
I know how to empty event log on windows XP, and then I have a script which cleans the numerous Windows 7 log categories. The windows 7 script looks like this:
wevtutil.exe cl Analytic
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Unique Identifier of an individual event in the system log?
I searched for a specific Event ID (6008 Unexpected Shutdown) in the Windows 7 Event Viewer, but now I want to see the events in the log that led up to that event, so how can I search for that ...
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How to find the log files of an application in Windows 7
What are the common places to find log files of an application in Windows 7?
I know a common place is "C:\Users\MY_USER_NAME\AppData\Local", but there are many folders with encrypted names like ...
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Windows File Replication Event Documentation - Result
I've been looking for some documentation on File Replication Event without much luck. I have some Result values that'd like to know what they mean. What is the purpose of the Result field in the ...
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Run a program when USB mass storage device connected [duplicate]
I want to run a program, say a batch file, when any USB mass storage device is connected. I also want to pass the drive letter as a parameter to this batch file.
This can perhaps be achieved using ...
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Windows Event Logs: Task Category
I have been scouring the internet for a formal definition of this piece of the Windows Event Logs. How is the category determined? Is there a set of standard values for this field? Can an application ...
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How to get a more detailed view of web browser http process? [duplicate]
This thread does a great job at detailing the process of connecting to a web page and displaying it in the browser.
But what I want to know is how can I track that process? Does Firefox or another ...
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Is there a way to measure an employee's computer usage?
I have been asked to see if a user is being productive. Windows 7 doesnt log much in the way of computer usage, but I was thinking it would be possible to see how long the computer is in a locked ...
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Component Services Error Log - SQL Server Distributed Replay Client
I am getting the following error on a Windows Server 2008 x64 R2 Virtual Machine install:
Log Name: System
Source: Distributed COM
Event ID: 10016
Level: Error
Date: 2/20/2013 8:22:14 AM
The ...
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Windows 8 Remote Desktop Host keeps crashing
About once an hour, my RD host (Windows 8 Pc) crashes the Remote Desktop service.
I always get this before crash in event log:
Information:
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7040
Message: ...
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Cannot connect to internet when Windows Event Log is disabled. Is there a workaround?
I am currently playing GTA 4. My system faces a lag while playing the game. When I searched in gta forums I was advised to disable windows event log while playing GTA 4. Following this I disabled ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Session.log filling hard drive
Here's a goofy problem.
On my Ubuntu computer the session.log and session.log.old files have been continually filling up the hard drive. I've got a 80gb partition for the OS and these logs have ...
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Network Services disabled (not starting) on Windows XP
I am currently running Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my system. But today, when I failed to connect to the internet, via a LAN cable, I realized that almost all of the vital network services had ...
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Windows Experience Index doesn't complete, HAL error in event viewer
So, I was just randomly digging around my laptop and found a couple of weird things. First, the Windows Experience Index goes through its motions, completes all the tests and then throws up this ...
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Windows 2008 security logs file name?
What's the Windows Server 2008 equivalent of the SecEvent.Evt file? So I can open the file itself on an external computer and see who logged in.
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Windows 7 Static IP Logs/History
Is there any way to pull up in the Event Log when a Static IP address was changed and if possible what changes were made?
I've run into a problem where someone keeps changing their static IP address ...
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How can I set an events log “When maximum event log size is reached” to Archive without the UI? [closed]
When viewing an Event Logs properties (in Server 2008) you can set three actions for what to happen when the maximum event log size has been reached:
Overwrite events as needed
Archive the log when ...
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Is it possible to make the motherboard log instant random shutdowns?
My computer randomly shuts down instantly. It even happens sometimes in the bios. And sometimes it runs for days under load without any problem.
I checked and it is not a temperature issue.
What I'm ...
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Daily “computer on” time from Windows logfiles
I'd like to know how long our computer is on, i.e. not in standby mode, for any given calendar day. Is there a (free) program that extracts this information from the Windows System event log into, ...
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Network connectivity logs on OSX
I'm trying to determine whether or not Macs store a log of network connectivity. Specifically, I'm trying to find out if one of my machines (Mac Tower, OSX 10.7.4, 2-2.26 GHz, 16 GB DDR3) lost ...
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Windows 7 Event ID for specific usb device connection
I am trying to run a service to sync a usb storage device to a folder on my computer using SyncToy software by Microsoft. I can schedule the software to run using the Windows event scheduler, and ...
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who initiated log off
I found following record in the windows event log:
Application popup: Windows : Other people are logged on to this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data.
Do you want to ...
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Huge log files consuming entire hard drive
My hard drive keeps becoming full, and I thought it was just normal usage, but now that I pay attention, rsyslogd is hogging the CPU, and I think the drive is being filled by log files:
> la -S
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Is it possible that a user sees “Windows Delayed Write Failed” without having an event id 26 or 50 in the system eventlog?
I got an MPSReport from someone who claims he sees these warnings on Windows XP. But there is no corresponding entry in the eventlog. I'm wondering whether he ran the report on the wrong machine...
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Use Task Scheduler to email Security Event log file?
In XP, how can I use the Task Scheduler to cause the Security Event log file to be emailed from a machine?
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Eventlog error id 22 post 512b -> AdvFormat harddrive clone
I just cloned Vista from a 512b/sector drive to an Advanced Format 4kb/sector drive. I've fixed all the nightmarish problems that caused except for one, upon which I'm stumped. Every time the system ...
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Run a batch file on exiting specific program
I want a batch file to run when I exit a specific program, Nokia Suite in my case.
I want to use Windows 7 task scheduler and would prefer avoiding any 3rd party program.
I have already checked ...
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Computer Slows to crawl after Event Id 3, some issue with Raid Port 0
Recently my computer randomly hangs, crashes and slows down at night, when I click on something when I wake up the computer just doesn't respond and shows the loading thing for my cursor.
Today, I ...
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Windows 7 theme automatically switched from Aero to basic and back. Is there a log for what caused this?
This happened to me yesterday, and I just want to rule out that anything malicious was going on.
I should probably also mention that it switched back to Aero after a minute or two.
edit: I have ...
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How to determine whether computer is on Domain from event logs?
I have spent a short period of time in an office recently, and I was able to dump the event logs on to a USB drive.
There are only XP Pro machines in the office. Is it possible that there is a ...
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Very infrequent Excel crash
Have 1 user who keeps experiencing an Excel crash when sorting data.
It is very infrequent and as of yet i've not done any serious troubleshooting, just an Office repair.
Event log reports the ...
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How do I decode the “Faulting application start time” in a Windows event log entry?
An app I was running crashed and I wanted to know when it happened, so I opened up the Windows event viewer and looked for an entry. I found the entry, and then noticed one of the details of the ...
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XP: how to know whether someone 'woke up' computer?
I have been trying to connect all day via Teamviewer to a machine in a different town. Now it suddenly works. I think someone there may have walked by and moved the mouse to wake it up.
What logs ...
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How to determine why Win7 machine is crashing?
When my Windows 7 machine crashes, I can't find any information in the event logs that can help me track down the problem. Is there a setting I can turn on to log more information so I can capture the ...
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What do I have to change to allow a local XP computer to open the event log on a remote windows 7 Computer?
I want to open the event log of a Windows 7 SP1 computer remotely from a Windows XP SP3 computer.
Both computers are on a domain, and the user has domain admin privilages. The firewall is turned off ...
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Why is event-log time different from taskbar time?
Today is the first time in several months that I've opened up Administrative tools to view the event log.
Imagine my consternation when I saw events in the log with a time-stamp of 11/09/2012. The ...
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Run program when USB device is plugged in [duplicate]
I'm not talking about autorun (because I use Windows 7 and understand that this has been disabled now) but a task that I can create that will detect when a certain USB device has been plugged in.
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VMware Player flooding my event log with information events about “I120: Service being interrogated…”
Every few seconds a few entries of Information Event 1000 shows up in my event log saying vmauthd was the source. Here is the xml log of the event. all the others are identical other than a ...
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NTFS Error - file system structure is corrupt and unusable [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
windows 7: Event 55 The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable
My Windows 7 (64) keeps completely locking up, and I have to hold the power button to ...
