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JSI Tip 1778. Event 6008 is erroneously reported?

If you receive:

Event ID: 6008
Source: Event Log
Description: The previous system shutdown at <time> on <date> was unexpected

and it is not true, upgrade to Service Pack 6 (SP6).

Use Regedt32 to navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability\LastAliveStamp

On the Edit menu, Add Value name TimeStampInterval, a type REG_DWORD. In the DWORD Editor, using the Decimal Radix, set it to the number of minutes between time stamp events. setting it to 0 will cause only boot and normal shutdown events to be logged.

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