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Title: need a puter geek asap.
Post by PollyPocket on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 12:48pm

I need to find which file does a startup log (like when the puter is turned on/accessed.

Something is amiss :(

oh ... I have windows XP

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by Lobster on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:09pm

Not sure what you mean by 'startup log'. You mean you want to see when it was used?

Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer.
System Log will show you different system events... from the times of those you can see when it was fired up.

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by Blue_eyes on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:09pm

Sound like a corrupted [smiley=damncomputer.gif] DLL file

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by Lobster on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:11pm

A more direct route to the event viewer...

Start/Run/eventvwr.msc

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by PollyPocket on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:15pm

that may be it Lobster. Lemme check

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by PollyPocket on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:17pm

shit. How do I check to see if its been turned off?

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by FramCire on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:18pm

Edited to delete useless information not addressing the problem.

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by Lobster on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:23pm

Jennifer wrote on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:17pm:

shit. How do I check to see if its been turned off?

There are some tasks that happen at shutdown that should be in the logs. You should see services terminating.
For example...
The Event log service was stopped.
right before a gap in the times on the log.

I have to step out. I will PM you my cell #.

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by Jonny on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:28pm

Jen, your taking computer advice from a guy named "Lobster"?.....LMMFAO :D

Just kidding, the dude knows his way around a puter and then some! ;)

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by PollyPocket on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:29pm

k, thanks.

Title: Re: need a puter geek asap.
Post by Ray on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 6:24pm

There is a command you can "RUN" called "msconfig". You can look at the "startup" tab and see if it begins there. It is a simple matter of checking or un-checking a box to see if that corrects the problem with the next reboot.

It is a bit more complicated if this is a "service" for that, you could "RUN" "services.msc", you could probably ignore anything from Microsoft....

Let me know if any of this helped.

Ray