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| IT Consultant Rep Power: 2 ![]() | I tried your suggestion but the system security will not allow me to rename the repository folder. I tried changing ownership and adding my specific user to the folder and contents with full control but no such luck. Attached is a screen print of "Access Denied" error message. By the way I did this with the "Administrator" user. Now what? ![]() |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Event Viewer Error 4201 Hi Rocky, and welcome to Vista Forums. I updated the steps a little to help. Try again and see what you get this time. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| Newbie Rep Power: 2 ![]() | Re: Event Viewer Error 4201 Hi Shawn, I have been trying this approach to getting my event viewer running so that i can install vista sp1 and have religiously followed these steps. All the confirmations have worked and the repository folder has been reset yet I still get the same error message when i try and manually start the event viewer service. I would restore to a point before the problem but it seems the problem has always been there as I reinstalled vista only about a month ago. I am worried about doing a repair install as I have several software's on this machine worth a fortune and no install files for them. Are there any other ways to get the event viewer running or sp1 installed without having to take those steps? Thanks a million Evan |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Event Viewer Error 4201 Hi Evan, and welcome to Vista Forums. Have you already tried setting this Event Viewer service to just Automatic and restart the computer to allow it to start that way? You might also double check to make sure that all of it's Dependencies (other required services) are started to. If you had to, a Repair install will not delete any installed software. It may remove the shortcuts for some of them in the Start menu, but you can easily recreate those from the program's exe file if needed. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| Newbie Rep Power: 2 ![]() | Re: Event Viewer Error 4201 Hi Shawn, Thank you for replying to my post. I had tried that to no avail but after some persistance I managed to follow some instructions on a post which solved the issue about an hour ago. Thanks once again for your suggestions Evan |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Event Viewer Error 4201 I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out Evan. Could you post the link to that post so that others with the same problem may be able solve their problem as well. Thank you, Shawn |
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| Newbie Rep Power: 2 ![]() | Re: Event Viewer Error 4201 Hi All, After trying a few things after having started with the process at the top of this page I ended up following the steps at the following link and it has solved the problem: Re: Serious security concern: event log error 4201 - MSDN Forums It all started when I couldn't install vista SP1 and then traced back to the eventlog and viewer services being unable to start - it seems a few folk have been having the issue and I'm pleased to announce that this has worked (well so far - I'm only an hour and a half in ). The services now run and so far as I can tell there are no other deleterious effects. Vista sp1 has also now finally installed without difficulty. It all looked way too complicated at the beginning but if a simple plant breeder can pull it off - hopefully so can you. I hope this helps.Evan |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Event Viewer Error 4201 Thank you Evan for posting this link so that it can help others. Shawn |
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