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Jennifer CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 3265 Supply, VA Gender:	need a puter geek asap. 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
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Lobster CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 2417 Gender:	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #1 - 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.
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Blue_eyes CH.com Junior Offline One day at a time Posts: 70 Minneapolis, MN. Gender:	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #2 - Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:09pm Sound like a corrupted DLL file
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Lobster CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 2417 Gender:	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #3 - Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:11pm A more direct route to the event viewer... Start/Run/eventvwr.msc
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Jennifer CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 3265 Supply, VA Gender:	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #4 - Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:15pm that may be it Lobster. Lemme check
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Jennifer CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 3265 Supply, VA Gender:	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #5 - Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:17pm shit. How do I check to see if its been turned off?
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FramCire CH.com Alumnus Offline Life like a froward child must be humored a little Posts: 1710 Bolivar, MO USA Gender:	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #6 - Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:18pm Edited to delete useless information not addressing the problem.
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Reply #7 - 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 #.

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Jonny Ex Member	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #8 - Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:28pm Jen, your taking computer advice from a guy named "Lobster"?.....LMMFAO Just kidding, the dude knows his way around a puter and then some!
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Jennifer CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 3265 Supply, VA Gender:	Re: need a puter geek asap. Reply #9 - Jan 25^th, 2009 at 1:29pm k, thanks.
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Reply #10 - 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

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