Monday, November 21, 2011

Userenvlog for Windows 7

User Environment Log is useful in troubleshooting login issues.  UserEnvLog is not enable by default, this is how you enable it:

1.  Create this folder if it does not exist:  %windir%\debug\usermode
2.  Create a registry subkey "Diagnostics" under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
3.  Create a new DWORD key  GPSvcDebugLevel
4.  Enter the value 30002 (hex)   http://blogs.technet.com/b/instan/archive/2008/04/17/troubleshooting-the-intermittent-slow-logon-or-slow-startup.aspx

5.  Reboot your machine and login, you should be able to find the Gpsvc.log in the folder %windir%debug\usermode directory.

Enabling winlogon.log
1.  Navigate to the this registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GPExtensions\{827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}.
2.  Edit this value :  ExtensionDebugLevel   DWORD    2
3.  Reboot
4.  Log file will be located at %systemroot%\security\logs