Newsletter Archives

• System Guard service error still won’t be fixed

  Posted on March 27, 2025 at 03:00 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  When the preview releases come out at the end of the month, they are a clue of nonsecurity fixes that will be included in the following month’s security patches. So, once again we turn to Windows 10 22H2’s preview update released on March 25 and find that in KB5053643, Microsoft is not prioritizing the fix for the event viewer problem — an error regarding SgrmBroker.exe. Stated reason: it’s a cosmetic issue.

  If you are seeing this error, you can safely ignore it. It is not a root cause for crashing PCs or blue screens of death. It’s one of many things one finds in the event viewer that are benign and can be ignored.

  This fix is clearly on a slow boat. Identified in January, not yet fixed, and no sign of it for April.

  Windows Security Event Viewer, Patch Lady Posts, Preview patches

• Unrelenting flood of EVTX files chokes 1TB drive

  Posted on April 20, 2020 at 01:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums
  

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  A wild system error is generating some 600 EVTX files per minute!

  Not surprisingly, the PC is unusable — even at full throttle, it simply can’t keep up! But Windows’ built-in Event Viewer might offer a clear way out of this and similar problems.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.15.0 (2020-04-20).

  LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Drive flooding, Event Viewer, Upgrade failures