Consider the following scenario:

• You are running a Windows Server 2008-based computer or a Windows Vista-based computer.
• In Event Viewer, you click Save and Clear to create a .csv file, a .txt file, or an .xml file.

Although the file is created successfully, the event log is not cleared as expected. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Event Viewer could not clear the log. The following error occurred: The parameter is incorrect.

On a Windows Server 2008-based or a Windows Vista-based computer, you use Event Viewer to try to view events on a remote computer. However, you receive an error message that resembles one that is mentioned in this section.

Note: This behavior occurs if the remote computer runs a version of Windows that is earlier than Windows Vista. The error message varies, depending on the operating system that is used on the remote computer.
Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server error message

There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper(1753)

Windows XP error message

Access is Denied(5)

In Windows Vista, you receive the following error message when you use Event Viewer to try to connect to another computer:

There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• In the “Regional Options and Languages” item in Control Panel, you have changed the decimal symbol from a period (.) to a comma (,).
• You try to connect to a computer that is running an earlier version of Windows. For example, you try to connect to a computer that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

When you use Event Viewer to view an event log that contains Microsoft Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, the IPv6 addresses do not display correctly in the descriptions of events. For example, an element of the event log payload replaces the scope ID part of the IPv6 address. In some cases, the multiple replacements are repeated several times in the IPv6 address.