talgam said:
I have received a red X on the left hand pane of the Application log in the
event viewer. It won't display the application log on the right. I am not
allowed to do a destructive restore because extra programs that were
installed, we installed by a third party and he doesn't have contact with
them. He does not have a Windows CD because it has the recovery sector on
the hard drive.
Is there any way that this problem can be fixed. I have not come across
this problem before and I can use all the help I can get on this problem.
Do you mean when you double click the Error to get more inf it doesn't open?
Please clarify what you mean.
If my guess is wrong then try to access the event viewer by doing the
following:
Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it
later for this step to copy the error message on it.
Open a run command and type in:
eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.
click on each of these:
Application
System
Security
Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow
exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the
causer.
On the Event error properties message you will see:
Up Arrow
Down arrow
Two pages
Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad
you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from
the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.
Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be sufficient.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
Please we need just the error messages with Red (X) and don't repeat the
error, just one of each kind and post them back in your next post.
If your Event Viewer logs are corrupted then try to clear them by doing the
following instruction in these lonks:
Also start with clean Boot and see if you can get the error messages.
How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434
How to Delete Corrupt Event Viewer Log Files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172156
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457024.aspx
HTH,
nass
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