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Empty event viewer

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dpeno

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Dec 17, 2003
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Recently I noticed that my event viewer is empty for all the logs. I have no idea how it got stopped or how to start it back up. ANy help would be greatly appreciated.

Dave
 
This same thing happen to me a while back. It turned out to be currupted logs.

Go to services and stop event log service.
Backup all your *.evt files in winnt\system32\config
Delete the evt files.
Restart services then reboot the server.

You should start to see events logged again.
 
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