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Old 10-23-2007   #1 (permalink)
vegaspat


 
 

Vista Event Viewer

When opening the Event Viewer I discovered there were NO logs. Instead I
received a message that MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might
not have been installed correctly.

This is a 7 month old eMachine and I have no idea how to install the
snap-in. I can't even find out where to check to see if it's enabled or
disabled per the Help File.

What can I do to get my Event Viewer to work properly.

Thanks.

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 10-24-2007   #2 (permalink)
P. Di Stolfo


 
 

Re: Vista Event Viewer

Hello,

maybe you'll want to try this:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...0546&SiteID=17
It describes a very similar problem.
Here's another information and a possible fix for the problem:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/arch...ing-vista.aspx

I hope this will help you.
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo
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"vegaspat" <vegaspat@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Quote:

> When opening the Event Viewer I discovered there were NO logs. Instead I
> received a message that MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in
> might
> not have been installed correctly.
>
> This is a 7 month old eMachine and I have no idea how to install the
> snap-in. I can't even find out where to check to see if it's enabled or
> disabled per the Help File.
>
> What can I do to get my Event Viewer to work properly.
>
> Thanks.
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 10-24-2007   #3 (permalink)
vegaspat


 
 

RE: Vista Event Viewer

Thanks for the response. I have already been to the TechNet board and was
going back there to try and post a message. One of the posts in that thread
had the very same error message that I did. The bad thing is that I can NOT
rename the MMC.exe file. Vista just won't let me.

Isn't it strange that this seems to be a Microsoft issue and yet there is no
documentation or fix on their web site?

It seems that several people have had this problem and were able to overcome
it and I can't even rename a silly file? My Task Scheduler has the same
error message. I didn't even know that until I read someone's post and
checked mine out.

I will check out the other link you sent.

Thanks again and if you have any other ideas I would appreciate hearing
about them.







vegaspat" wrote:
Quote:

> When opening the Event Viewer I discovered there were NO logs. Instead I
> received a message that MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might
> not have been installed correctly.
>
> This is a 7 month old eMachine and I have no idea how to install the
> snap-in. I can't even find out where to check to see if it's enabled or
> disabled per the Help File.
>
> What can I do to get my Event Viewer to work properly.
>
> Thanks.
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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