Where is logged if my computer performed a shutdown or crashed ?

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Sven Mayer

Assume I want to know if a computer was shutdowned yesterday normally (e.g. through Start->Shutdown)
or crashed or was warm/cold rebooted.

How do I detect this?

I assume a "normal" shutdown writes a log entry.

But when I go to

Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->EventViewer

I could not see in any of the three logs an entry like

"Normal Shutdown"

So where exactly can I see what happened?

(Under Win2000 and WinXP if different)

Paul
 
Sven Mayer said:
Assume I want to know if a computer was shutdowned yesterday normally (e.g. through Start->Shutdown)
or crashed or was warm/cold rebooted.

How do I detect this?

I assume a "normal" shutdown writes a log entry.
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It won't unless you have enabled Auditing. Do a search in "Help and Support"
for Auditing.
 
You want to setup some 'Performance Logging'.

start/run, type:

HH ms-its:%windir%\Help\howto.chm::/snap_sysmon.htm
 
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