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Appearance Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get exclusive access to open event viewer vista our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY vista event viewer xp TRIVIA Search How-To Geek Fixing "Event Viewer cannot open the event log" When Viewing System Logs As any geek windows vista event viewer knows, one of the first things that you do when troubleshooting a Windows problem is look into Event Viewer's Application or System logs, which typically are rich with information on what the event viewer error 4201 problem is. But what if the event log itself is corrupted? I came across this exact situation the other day, where I was getting the error "Event Viewer cannot open the event log or custom view. Verify that Event Log service is running. The data is invalid (13)"… but the error only happened when trying to open the System log, while the Application log was working
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just fine, and restarting Event Log or rebooting didn't help. What you can do in this situation is clear the system log, saving it to a file in the process. This will usually "reset" the log so that future events will be viewable. Clearing the System Log Here's an example of the error message that I've been getting: You can right-click on any of the logs and choose "Clear Log" from the menu. You'll want to choose "Save and Clear" when prompted just in case you need to access those events. Give the logfile a useful name, and then click the Save button to continue. Note that you probably won't be able to open the log with Event Viewer, but you could open it in a text editor and try and find some information in it. Now that I've cleared the log, you can see that I'm able to view the events in the System log again.
Extra Note: The problem I was encountering ended up being because I had 9 USB devices plugged into a machine with a very pathetic power supply. Moving the devices onto a Powered USB hub fixed thetrying a series of other attempted fixes, like clearing out the existing logs from: %SystemRoot%\System32\Winevt\Logs, as well as making
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sure the permissions on the folder were ok. There was a suggestion to event viewer error 55 use Process Monitor(procmon), so I tried starting the service, worked out what PID it was then filtered the view by event viewer error 7001 that PID. I saw the PID was attempting to traverse a set of Registry Keys which were showing as NOT FOUND. The full key was: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EventLog I checked the registry and this contained http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fixing-event-viewer-cannot-open-the-event-log-when-viewing-system-logs/ a set of Keys for Application, Security and System. For me these then only contained an entry for Retention. Which got me thinking, does this even need to be here? I deleted the Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EventLog then tried to start the Windows Event Log service and BAM! worked straight up No comments event log, event log service, event viewer, eventlog, windows, windows event log service http://klevster.com/fix/windows-event-log-service-error-13-the-data-is-invalid/ Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * Website Comment Search for: Recent Posts Windows Event Log Service - Error 13: The data is invalid Phone Scammers and Internet Security SQL2012\2014 Management Studio - Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application Amazon Glacier - Backup your data now! Command-line Passive FTP - Dreaded 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection. Recent Comments Yasin Müftüler on SQL2012\2014 Management Studio - Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the applicationWen on SQL2012\2014 Management Studio - Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the applicationMurtada Mihyawi on SQL2012\2014 Management Studio - Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the applicationDanish Habib on SQL2012\2014 Management Studio - Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the applicationDanish Habib on SQL2012\2014 Management Studio - Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application Archives August 2015 July 2015 June 2014 August 2012 July 2012 Categories Fix HOWTO Opinion Uncategorized Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org My Stats! 34UniqueVisitorsPowered By Place your Footer Content here zeeMagazine Theme
Service not starting RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows errors and improve system performance Windows Event Log service maintains a set of http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-event-log-service-not-starting event logs that the system, system components, and applications use to record http://serverfault.com/questions/144190/cannot-start-eventlog-service events. The service exposes functions that allow programs to maintain and manage the event logs and perform operations on the logs, such as archiving and clearing. As such, administrators can maintain event logs and perform administrative tasks requiring administrator privileges. Windows Event Log Service Not event viewer Starting or Running For some unknown reason if you find you are having difficulty starting the following, it is quite possible that one of the reason could be that Windows Event Log Service is Not Running. Task Scheduler Windows Event Calendar Messenger Sharing Folders In such a scenario, you may get error messages like: Event Log service event viewer error is unavailable. Verify that the service is running Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer First, reboot your system and see if it helps. Sometimes a simple restart helps reinitialize this service. If the Windows Event Log shows as being started, re-start it from Services Manager. To check if the Windows Event Log service is started or stopped, Run services.msc and hit Enter to open the Services Manager. Here, again right- click on Windows Event Log Service, check up its Properties. Ensure that the Startup type is set on Automatic and that the services is Started; and that it runs in the Local Service account. Advertisement ^ Also ensure in the Recovery tab, all three drop down boxes, show the option as ‘Restart the Service', in case of Failure. Reboot if required. At times the Windows Event Log Service still will not start, and you may instead get the following error message: System cannot find the file specified In this case, open the f
Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Cannot start eventlog service up vote 1 down vote favorite On a windows 2k8R2 DC box the eventlog service wont start. When i try to start the service the machine returns: "Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer. Error 13: The data is invalid." event viewer wont open either. obviously, i dont have an event log for this error. ive already tried clearing the event logs. that didnt do anything. the other DC isnt experiencing this issue. windows-server-2008-r2 domain-controller windows-event-log share|improve this question asked May 21 '10 at 17:51 Devnull 695515 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted Delete the event logs, %SystemRoot%\system32\config*.evt. Try to restart the service if it won't reboot. The system will automatically generate new, clear logs. share|improve this answer answered May 21 '10 at 18:55 citadelgrad 641512 i restored from backup for other reasons before trying this, but had to perform a similar set of tasks to get the security log to work again. pretty sure this would have solved it. –Devnull May 21 '10 at 21:31 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Post as a guest Name Email discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for?