Mark,
I follow your suggestion below, but unfortunately it did not resolve the
problem. Do you know where in the registry this setting is kept? Maybe, I can
change it manually?
Thank you.
"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
> My guess would be that the registry entry for columns is damaged. If you
> open the 'add or remove' properties of the column headers you should be able
> to 'remove' the 'date and time' column, restart windows, and 'add' it back
> in. This should toggle the setting and make it show up.
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> "Tarheeler" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > I have an XP box that has a strange problem with event viewer itself. The
> > time column (doesn't matter which log is being viewed) is blank. It
> > appears
> > to still be recording the event time because it can still be filtered by
> > time, but just won't display the time. Has anyone ever seen anything like
> > this before?
> >
> > I have tried clearning the event logs and creating new event logs bot to
> > no
> > effect. I even tried copying the eventvwr.msc file from another XP box.
> > Again, no effect.
> >
> > I am trying to avoid reimaging the machine as it has some custom software
> > on
> > it that is troublesome to migrate to another machine.
> >
> > Thank you for any advice provided.
>