Event Viewer

[Russ]

OK, so I finally figured out what my problem was with the event viewer
service not starting. It is a severe permissions problem. I granted
administrator ownership to the win32\logs folder. For whatever reason, the
logs folder and everything in it did not have ANY permission.

But, I had played with a few other things. Someone that is running Vista
(Business), can you tell me a few things.

1) Go in to the Local Security Policy ---> User Right Assignment ---> Log on
as a service, and please tell me what user or group is assigned.

2) Right click on your C:\ or whatever drive that Vista is installed on and
please tell me who is the owner of the entire drive? I have my computers
Administrators group. Is this correct?

Thank you for your help...

 

[Chad Harris]

Hey Russ--

On a Vista Business box:

1) To question one (secpol.msc in run box gets you to security policy) I
found that my user profile is the one that is assigned--in other words it is
my main default user Profile--of course you can add others as you know much
as you can mod the permissions on the security tab for an object,
folder,file shortcut. This is also the same as my computer name that you
can display by hitting the Windows+ Pause Break keys.

2) When I right click on my Vista Drive>click on "Security Tab", all the
user profiles are listed, and I can assign whatever permissions I want via
the security tab--users have read and execute, they can list folder contents
but not full control/modify.

I would be surprised if this varies from edition to edition. I see no
reason why it would. I have Ultimate boxes as well, and there is no
difference in the above. I also used every Beta edition including some in
October and November that TBT did not get, but TAP did. They were all
Ultimate and I found no difference in what I've described in any build.

hth and good luck,

CH