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I have many, many warnings and errors in Event Viewer (Windows 11 24H2). Can these be ignored?

Anonymous
2025-03-31T21:27:47+00:00

I see on a lot of answers here when people ask about these errors and warnings, the advice is usually that they can be ignored (Googling one of these errors brought me to this exact forum, to which someone else had already asked and the answer was the usual "That can be ignored").

On the face of it, it doesn't seem prudent to ignore anything labeled "Warning" or "Error" (that last one with an ominous looking red icon, no less). If they can in fact be ignored, can the developers not simply label these "Information" instead, and save the "Warning" and "Error" labels for actual warnings and errors?

I learned years ago that in Linux logs, a lot of the "FAILED"-labeled scary looking "errors" are not in fact errors. For example, a particular module may be loaded early on in the boot process (successfully and without issue), then attempted to be loaded again later, which fails (simply because it's already loaded) but it generates a "LOADING FAILED!" error instead of an "Already loaded" notification.

So is that what's going on with these Windows 11 Event Viewer warnings and errors? They're really notifications, not that something went wrong, it just generated that in the log simply because it was too early for that particular thing to happen, it already happened, etc?

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  1. Igor Leyko 111.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-03-31T23:05:06+00:00

    Hi,

    My name is Igor, it's a pleasure for me to help others and I'll try to help you. I am merely a fellow user trying to provide insight and information that may be helpful to others. I answer during my free time, so some delays are possible.

    Yes, you are right, many "errors" are in fact just notifications but not all of course.

    E.g. DistributedCom errors10016, 10010, 10005 can be ignored. As an example, see 10016 description - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402252...

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-31T22:35:12+00:00

    Event Viewer is a log that records everything whether it matters or not. The vast majority of what you see doesn't matter - it's just Windows' internal housekeeping. Here's an example I like to use: You flush the toilet, and Event Viewer reports that the water level in the tank is low. Well, of course, what did you expect?

    You should ignore Event Viewer unless your computer has a specific problem, like a crash. For a specific problem, Event Viewer might have more information that can help you diagnose the problem. (If you choose the correct Event Viewer entry.)

    You should not be an Event Viewer hypochondriac, as many posters here are. 😉

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  3. Airbus A350 7,380 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-03-31T22:23:30+00:00

    Hello,

    Could you share some of the Event Logs?

    Depending on what the errors are, they can mean different things. Some are able to be ignored and some shouldn't.

    Hope to hear back from you.

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