How to distinguish between power failure and normal system..

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A normal system shutdown will show an information bubble in the system
events for source 'eventlog' at the time of shutdown. A power failure will
show an error bubble for source 'eventlog' at the next reboot.

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lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley


"Zhenxin Li" <xxxin@xxxin.com> wrote in message
news:e7H5HX%23pFHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> How to distinguish between power failure and normal system shutdown? Is
> there any clue in the registry or event viewer?
>
> Thanks!
> zxli
>