Computer restarting on it's own, can't view event logs

MarTeeny

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Jan 25, 2015
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My computer has been randomly restarting itself. Once I saw an overheating mesage so I opened and cleaned out all of the dust. That was helping fora while but then still happening. I tried to open event viewer but I got the following error message

"Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer. Error 4201: The instance name passed was not recognized as valid by a WMI data provider"

How do I determine the issue and now do I fix the event log issue??

Running Windows 7, 64bit