Event Viewer

[Dajan]

I have opened event viewer and when I highlight the system tab a window
comes up saying,

The event log file is corrupt.
then a red cross comes up on the icon and it says,

There are no items to show in this view.

The computer seems to running ok, I have XP Pro
with sevice pack 2.

Any advice would be appreciated

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Found this message in Google, which may help.

Eric Fitzgerald [MSFT] Jun 4 2003, 11:26 am show options

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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:23:39 -0700
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How do you know that it is corrupt?


The procedure for deleting an event log file:


1. Start/Run services.msc. Set the startup type for the Event Log
service
to "disabled".
2. Reboot.


3. Start/Run %windir%\system32\config4. Rename sysevent.evt sysevent.bak
5. Start/Run services.msc. Set the startup type for the Event Log
service
to "automatic". Start the event log service.

Eric



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Hope this helps.

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