When I find specific entries that seem significant, I also run NirSoft's FullEventLogView because that makes it easy to see everything in chronological order enabling the events before & after the event of interest to be considered. On a similarly confusing note, S0 Modern standby event records are misleadingly labelled as relating to S0 Connected standby whichever state is in force - Connected/Disconnected standby. When reviewing power state transitions, note that S3 Sleep & Hibernation events can only be distinguished, in a computer that has both, by looking at the Details tab of the resume EventID 1 for Hiber* entries that are greater than 0 resuming from S3 Sleep would show Hiber* entries that have the value 0 You can then select a particular Custom view in Event viewer's left-hand pane. To import them, which must be done one at a time: 1 Unzip the fileĢ Open Event viewer, click on Import Custom view ,Ĥ Change the name if you want to then OK,ĥ You can see the records, on the left-hand side, within the group Custom views. They are actually the record of the Event logging service itself starting & stopping.īefore importing them, you can read their unzipped xml files in Notepad or, for a better presentation of their contents, by right-clicking and opening in a browser. Starts, Shutdowns v2.zip - These indirect records can also be useful in complementing the monitoring of Starts & Shutdowns. Here are the definitions for those Event viewer, Custom views. You don' need to log your computer before. Including correct daylight time and automatic backup. It's not what you asked about but I also frequently check power state transitions when I'm investigating startup, shutdown events so I thought it would be useful to include that definition as well. PC On/Off Time Net PC On/Off Time shows the working time on your computer and network computers as Month chart. The power state transitions Custom view is a combined definition that can be used on S0 Modern standby computers as well as on proper computers. You could set up custom views for startup, shutdown & power state transitions.

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