Event viewer stopped reporting events

[DianaH]

I've had a couple of crashes and went to the event viewer to sniff around
and see if it lead me to anything, but there's nothing after about the third
week of September. I'm not sure what's going on. There are usually all
kinds of entries, noting what's going on, but there's nothing in any of the
areas.

Any thoughts on why this has happened ... or rather, stopped?

Thanks.

 

[Frankster]

Sort on Date.

-Frank

 

[DianaH]

That was the first thing I did Frank, as I couldn't believe it when I saw
it, but that didn't help.
Thanks.

Sort on Date.

-Frank

 

[Dave Patrick]

The files may be corrupt. Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Services|Event
Log Service|General, set the "Startup Type:" to "Disabled" restart the pc,
then delete (or move) the corrupt *.evt file(s) from
%systemroot%\system32\config then set the Event Log Service "Startup Type:"
back to "Automatic", restart for effect.

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:
| That was the first thing I did Frank, as I couldn't believe it when I saw
| it, but that didn't help.
| Thanks.

 

[Frankster]

Hee hee... too bad it wasn't that easy. In addition to the advice to clear
possible corrupt files you might take a look at the FILTER tab. Perhaps
someone has un-ticked the events to log.

-Frank