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- DOCUMENT:Q111720 23-FEB-1994 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Event Log: Error 1501
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- SYMPTOMS
- ========
-
- When you start Event Viewer, the following error appears:
-
- The Eventlog service on the local machine is not started.
-
- Then, after you start the Eventlog service from the Services section of
- Control Panel the following error message appears:
-
- Could not start the Eventlog service on \\<machine name>.
- Error 1501: No event log file could be opened,
- so the event logging service did not start.
-
- CAUSE
- =====
-
- This error only occurs when the Windows NT system drive is formatted for
- NTFS. When the Eventlog Service starts, it opens three log files in the
- %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\CONFIG directory. If the system does not have the
- correct permissions, it cannot open and write the log files.
-
- RESOLUTION
- ==========
-
- For these files to be opened successfully, Read and Write permission in
- this directory must be granted to the Administrators group, the System
- account, or the Everyone group. Any one of these three enables the system
- to function normally.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: ntap
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