Shortcut please

[JackNaylorPE]

After helping my son build his latest rig, we were wrestling with a lot of driver issues which kept spitting up messages in Event Viewer. When I kept asking him to e-mail me the messages, he **copied** the shortcut icon off Control Panel I assumed and placed it on the desktop. When we had fixed all the issues, he deleted the desktop icon. Problem is, the shortcut in Control Panel is gone (apparently he didn't copy it off, he dragged and dropped it off) and when deleted the desktop icon, I have to launch it thru mmc.exe.

So no biggie, I figure I know the name of the file that launches it so i will just search for it and create a new shortcut. So I do that and find that there's like 8 of em in the various windows folders and I have no idea which one is the "default" launch file.

So, if one of you will kindly right click on your shortcut in control panel for Event Viewer, hit properties and tell me which path is to the correct default file, I can undo sonny's little booboo.

Thanx in advance.

 

[arrghushakaboorga]

administrative tools location
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools

target path from administrative tools shortcut properties
%windir%\system32\eventvwr.msc /s

'start in' from administrative tools shortcut properties
%windir%\system32

actual real file location
C:\Windows\system32


hope this helps

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Much thanks, it's back in place.

can't figure why we need half dozen copies of same damn file all over our C: drives.