in reply to Re^4: How to access Windows Vista/Server 2008 eventlogs(.evtx vs. .evt)
in thread How to access Windows Vista/Server 2008 eventlogs(.evtx vs. .evt)

Did you ever figure this out?

Yes. It works fine on Vista locally. Therefore I suggest you have a permissions problem.

I don't have the ability to change the code that the executable was compiled from.

"Compiled"? This is a Perl forum. If you really mean "packaged" (as in Par or similar), then extracting the source code from the packaging is (apparently) quite trivial.

Quite frankly, expecting a script packaged under XP to continue to work under Vista is optimism of the highest (and most naive) order. Vista has a ream of changes in the way it works that simply didn't exist under XP.

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