On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:47:08 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:28:03 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

slate_leeper wrote:

Win-10-64bit-Pro

Weird 1:
After rebooting the computer, pressing the Windows key results only in
a blank white box. Anything typed is ignored.

1 to 2 hours later, it starts showing the normal dark gray box and the
icons I have selected. However anything typed is still ignored.
Clicking the "All Apps" icon gives the list. Clicking on Cortana gives
the search box. Typing anything results in the blank white box. Same
result when pressing WindowsKey+S.

Task Manager shows Cortana as "suspended." There seems to be no option
to un-suspend.sfc /scannow found and fixed one corrupted file,
OneDrive.lnk. I don't use OneDrive, and can't imagine this being the
problem.

The DISM checkhealth option reported "no component store corruption
detected."

One website suggested shellexperiencehost being suspended might be
causing the problem, and that would show in TaskManager. TaskManager
does show Windows Shell Experience host as suspended, but again I
found no information on how to un-suspend.

Since you haven't looke at the Event Viewer to check, and to start
checking anew, I'd clear the events in Event Viewer and reboot. Then
look at Event Viewer to see what non-informational messages it had.

Advising someone who may not know better to clear their Event logs is
supremely bad advice. Instead, just use the filters that are provided.
It's easy to look at any desired time period using the available
filters.

When you clear the logs, everything logged is gone for good, which is
definitely not something anyone should suggest to others. Clear your own
logs if you like, but not someone else's. IMHO, of course.

It all rolls out, anyway (expires). If users haven't been monitoring
their logs, the old records disappear. Expiration is not by date but by
volume of new records.

"It all rolls out anyway" tells me that you simply don't get it. Event
logs are only useful if they exist. Deleting everything makes them
useless. Deleting everything so you can see what's new is just dumb
because you can use the provided filters to see the new stuff.

Like I said, clear your own logs anytime you like, but it's
irresponsible to suggest someone else should do it. Besides the OP,
others read posts here and might accidentally take your bad advice.

Looking at logs only has value to see the rate of repetition for a
particular event.

Not true, and you know it. Single events can be just as valuable as
repeated events.

History has value only if you actually want the
history. Look at the OP's posts. You really think the OP gives a
gnat's fart about old records? He want to find out what happened NOW.

You have no clue what the OP wants, nor do you have a clue what anyone
else who might come along and see your bad advice wants. Today, the OP
looks like he's trying to address a specific issue, but tomorrow he
might want to work on another issue and the advice might be to check his
event logs. His reply? "You mean the logs you told me to delete
yesterday?"

Saying that the OP must keep the old logs that he won't be reviewing is
a nebulous suggestion. Maybe YOU want to see if the same event got
recorded 2 weeks or 2 months ago but that doesn't appear to be what the
OP wants to do. Per your own advice, the OP should filter out all the
old logs, so he won't see them. Well, that's my suggestion does, too.

Unless I completely misread your post, your suggestion was to DELETE the
event logs ("clear the events in Event Viewer and reboot". Filtering and
deleting are not even close to being the same thing. You know better.

However, with huge-sized logs just to keep around records you don't care
about and won't be using because, gee, you'll be filtering them out,
makes using the viewer can be laggy. A lot faster to scroll through a
few thousand log entries than 20 million.

That's absolutely untrue, but you wouldn't know it because...wait for
it...you've probably screwed up your own event logs, too. If you can get
access to a system that you haven't screwed up, go ahead and give it a
shot. Use the filters to view a single day's worth of events, or
whatever period suits your fancy. Notice any lag? No, of course not.