[BUG]: Cannot Login and Windows Event Log service

giogio33 commented 2 months ago

Description

Hi, on two computers I had the same problem after running the same scripts. I debugged for a week and this is what I know now that I can finally work. I worked with image restoration to be able to advance in the debugging.

The problem: After typing the password it hangs forever. sometimes I didn't even get the prompt to login after powerup. After experimenting with Safe mode I discovered that unchecking (not running) the service called "Windows Event Log" I can login although not everything works well. How absurd that a windows logger creates such a serious problem. Congratulation Microsoft.

I then ran Windows Sexy and revert everything that was revertible. This get me to resolve the problem. I will now need to activate one by one, maybe with bisection method since I use image restoration, to see the culprit. Do you have any suggestion where to start from? This will be a slow debug that I can do only when I have more time to go through the image restoration process.

In the attached log file I think that what runs on 2024-04-28 is the revert operation and maybe what runs on 2024-04-19 is what may have created the problem. Not sure. Thank you.

OS

Win 10 Pro 22H2 (OS Build 19045.4355)

Reproduction steps

N/A

Scripts

Runs.zip

Additional information

log file: main.log

giogio33 commented 2 months ago

There must be a bug. I cannot post: It results blank and I carefully resubmitted all :(

Please let me know what the problem might be and delete this post. Sorry and thank you

plantindesk commented 2 months ago

There must be a bug. I cannot post: It results blank and I carefully resubmitted all :(

Please let me know what the problem might be and delete this post. Sorry and thank you

write here once again

undergroundwires commented 2 months ago

Hi I understand what's going on, you need the remove comment specifiers such as <!-- , I will improve the issue creation experience so it will be forms instead to simplify this. I edit your post to fix it 🤗.

plantindesk commented 2 months ago

OMG 😂

@undergroundwires what i think is that more of the people are selecting full category and not checking what that category contains For eg selecting Disable app access to personal information without checking inside it and now getting issue that no apps can access notification

Am I right @undergroundwires

undergroundwires commented 1 month ago

@giogio33, sorry for not being really helpful. This is exactly what I do to find side-effects, bisection with a binary search.

I tested these on Windows 10 22H2 Pro VMs 2024-04-20_01-03-10-privacy-script but failed to reproduce:

I can log off and log back in.
I can restart the system and log back in.

I do not have access to physical Windows machine, which may be need to get the local "login" experience.

I'm not sure which script has this side effect that disables the service that you mention which is the root cause. Please report back if you figure out what has caused it so we can take proper action.

Out-of-topic:

I updated issue templates to make the experience better avoiding future confusion. See new issues experience.
@plantindesk, we have no telemetry etc., have no idea how users use this, but a safer way to design categories would be to make them "checkable" without causing anything unexpected. The unexpected stuff can be categorized separately. But the current categorization does not do it everywhere, and any PRs / issues etc. are appreciated.

undergroundwires / privacy.sexy