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Vista Event Viewer

by rgfitz Jan 19, 2008 1:20AM PST

The Vista Event Viewer is too complicated.

I would like to clear, delete, whatever, the event logs and start with a "clean slate". I can find directions in "Help" to delete events but it doesn't work for me. I thought I had found the answer in Disk Cleanup but the logs just pop back up after being "cleaned".

I am tired of searching for answers. Event Viewer cleanup is no problem in Windows XP.

I have errors dating to 12/6/2007, before I even bought the new computer.

Has anyone out there cleaned up their event logs?

Has anyone out there eliminated all of their Critical and plain old vanilla Errors?

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Cleaned up the events

by rgfitz Jan 19, 2008 1:35AM PST

Well, as usual, I will answer my own post.

I tried one more time and managed to clear the five Windows Logs but I should have written the procedure down since I probably will have trouble doing it again.

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no errors or warnings in event viewer log

by rgfitz Jan 20, 2008 1:26AM PST

My Event Viewer Applications and System logs are clean with no errors or warnings so now if anything shows up it will probably be because of something I have installed or changed.

"the parallel port driver failed to start" warning was probably an HP problem that was eliminated by editing a PARPORT entry in the registry. My computer does not have a parallel port.

The warning, ?Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.
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1 user registry handles leaked?? was eliminated by disabling Windows Defender using msconfig. I never used Windows Defender anyway and apparently it cannot be uninstalled.

One Security failure is left but that is a problem with Fix-It Utilities 8 Pro that I have reported to Avanquest.

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