windows event logs
Maintaining windows boxes at work is one of the rare joys I get to experience. This bug just hit me again for the second time since I’ve started working here, and I thought I’d throw it out for anyone else who might find it useful.
I’ll just copy the straight note I made myself:
Windows has this stupid bug where it will lockup if the event logs get too large, because it isn’t cleaning them out automatically.
To fix it, open up Event Viewer. In the properties of each log, change “when maximum log size is reached:” to “overwrite events as needed.”