{"id":13421,"date":"2014-09-07T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tom.ji42.com\/?p=13421"},"modified":"2014-09-07T16:54:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:54:26","slug":"how-to-disable-the-shutdown-event-tracker-in-server-20032008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/?p=13421","title":{"rendered":"How to disable the Shutdown Event Tracker in Server 2003\/2008?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice feature that can sometimes by annoying is the Shutdown Event Tracker, that allows you to comment every time you shut off a server. While I do understand the auditing requirements to have this in place on production server, this feature is unnecessary for development and test servers and can be disabled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jppinto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012010_1356_Howtodisabl1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more-->To disable Shutdown Event Tracker we need to open the Group Policy Editor, the Group Policy Editor can be opened from pressing &#8220;START &gt; RUN &gt; GPEDIT.MSC &#8221; then press ENTER<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jppinto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012010_1356_Howtodisabl2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the navigation menu on the left side navigate to &#8220;Computer Configuration &gt; Administrative Templates &gt; System&#8221;, then on the right side double click &#8220;Display Shutdown Event Tracker&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jppinto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012010_1356_Howtodisabl3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Change the option from &#8220;Not Configured&#8221; to &#8220;Disabled&#8221; &gt; Press &#8220;Apply&#8221; then press &#8220;OK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jppinto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/012010_1356_Howtodisabl4.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note you can also use this to enable Shutdown Event Tracker in Vista although I have no idea why someone would want to do that.<\/p>\n<p>A restart is not required for this change to take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice feature that can sometimes by annoying is the Shutdown Event Tracker, that allows you to comment every time you shut off a server. While I do understand the auditing requirements to have this in place on production server, this feature is unnecessary for development and test servers and can be disabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cOVM-3ut","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13422,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421\/revisions\/13422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}