Saturday, December 13, 2008

The security log on this system is full. Only administrators can log on to fix the problem.

In XP or in Windows Server 2003 when a user who is not a member of the Administrator Group tries to login, they receive this error message: The security log on this system is full. Only administrators can log on to fix the problem.

To solve this problem:
  1. Login to the local machine as the Administrator or as a user who is a member of the Administrator Group.

  2. START > CONTROL PANEL > ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS > EVENT MANAGER
    (To see ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, you might need to click on SWITCH TO CLASSIC VIEW in the upper left of CONTROL PANEL.)

  3. In the left pane, right click on SECURITY and then select CLEAR ALL EVENTS.
    (SAVE only if you want a copy of the logs.)


To prevent the problem from happening :
  1. In the left paneof EVENT VIEWER, right click on SECURITY and then select PROPERTIES.

  2. Change WHEN MAXIMUM LOG SIZE IS REACHED to OVERWRITE EVENTS AS NEEDED.






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    2 comments:

    k-4-m-t-3-l said...

    Thank's for your article.

    July 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM
    tabbimama said...

    Thank you so much! I have been waiting over a week for Tech Support to fix this! I'm a librarian at a small college with a limited number of computers for our students to use, so even one "Out of Order" sign is a huge inconvenience. I just got sick of waiting and searched online for a solution. Your instructions were spot-on and the whole fix took about 5 minutes. Bless you!

    October 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM

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