Hi, We have a Win2K server(SP2) which is in a workgroup. There is a special application running on this box, and the developers (in another location) have given us a patch to apply. This was done last week. Now, we are not able to access the System log in the event viewer. The local administrator does not have the permissions to open the file. error is ‘access denied’. We have checked the log files in %system root%\system32\config folder and the normal permissions are applied to all of the files. We have checked the Group policy and are not able to find any thing which has been changed. Also the developers do not have any idea what may have caused this. The Application log and the Security log, can be viewed with no problem. We havechecked Technet and the only article that seems to apply is Q245128. This has been done, but has not corrected the problem. Is there some setting that we still need to check? Thanks.