Windows – Cannot open any applications on windows server 2008 R2 Standard edition

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I have a server running on Windows server 2008 R2. It is recently added as a member of a domain. I am not able to start any applications in thew server. When I tried to open Event viewer it errored out saying "The page file is to small to complete the action".

I am experiencing same problem when I tried to open Sql server Management studio, task scheduler or any other application. The windows server serves as a production database server, but our applications are not experiencing any problems. Can someone please help?

Best Answer

What i would try:

  • Put the server in a temporary OU in Active Directory, and bock GPO inheritance. Then replicate accross DC + gpupdate on this server. If it works again, it comes from GPO
  • You may use Process Monitor, from Microsoft, to understand what it fails to do.
  • Did you try to first launch a Cmd prompt with elevated rights (right click, run as admin..) and then launch eventvwr ?

If you get the CMD but eventvwr fail, can you try this:

wevtutil qe Application /c:3 /rd:true /f:text

wevtutil qe System /c:3 /rd:true /f:text

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