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Windows Forum / Windows XP / New Users / February 2008Usuer Account
I have just set up a user account for my wife. I am using Windows XP Home Edition SP2. This was done yesterday and everything worked absolutely fine. Today when logging on, a log on dialogue box appeared saying "The security log on this system is full. Only adminstrators can log on to fix this" Okay, I'm the administrator but how do I fix this? Anyone help at all? >I have just set up a user account for my wife. I am using Windows XP Home > Edition SP2. This was done yesterday and everything worked absolutely [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Anyone help at all? I don't know whether Home edition has this. Right-Click on My Computer and choose "Manage". In the L/H pane under System Tools, expand Event Viewer. Right-Click on Security, and then you can either clear it, or select properties and edit the size. HTH > I have just set up a user account for my wife. I am using Windows XP Home > Edition SP2. This was done yesterday and everything worked absolutely fine. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Anyone help at all? Set the Event Log to "Overwrite events as needed". "The security log on this system is full" message when you try to log on to a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867860/en-us John > "The security log on this system is full" message when you try to log on > to a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867860/en-us That kb article specifically says XP Pro.....no mention of whether it applies to Home Edition... > "The security log on this system is full" message when you try to log on > to a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867860/en-us Am I right in saying that Home does not have administrative Tools? >>"The security log on this system is full" message when you try to log on >>to a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 >>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867860/en-us > > Am I right in saying that Home does not have administrative Tools? I don't have a Windows XP Home machine to verify but the Administrative Tools folder only contains shortcuts to various items. If the folder isn't there the Event Viewer can be accessed by entering the following in the "Run" box: eventvwr.msc or the fully qualified path: %SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc In any case, as you said in your other post, the user only needs to get to the Event Viewer by some means or other and change the log size settings. It is usually best to set logs to Overwrite events as needed. John > It is usually best to set logs to Overwrite events as needed. Interestingly the default in Pro appears to be "Overwrite events older than 7 days" - so if that is the default setting, then the OP needs to look at the log first I would suggest! >> It is usually best to set logs to Overwrite events as needed. > > Interestingly the default in Pro appears to be "Overwrite events older than > 7 days" - so if that is the default setting, then the OP needs to look at > the log first I would suggest! That "Overwrite events older than 7 days" would probably be fine for most any users. Personally I might want to keep the logs for a bit longer than 7 days, at times it can make it easier to see when a problem started and what other errors might have been present before or when problems started. I think that the point is to not simply set a size and not have any overwrite option present, if the log fills up it can just create problems for nothing. John "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message : Am I right in saying that Home does not have administrative Tools? Mine does. Gentlemen (Gordon, John Jon and Tom (Pepper) Thank you very much for your assistance. Home does have administrative tools but you can disable them. You can still then access them through Gordons first response. Problem solved. Thanks again. Mr C |
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