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What does the Windows NT Event Viewer complain about missing descriptions for my event messages when I use the NTEventLogAppender?

April 26, 2017complain descriptions event Messages MISSING NT nteventlogappender viewer Windows

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What does the Windows NT Event Viewer complain about missing descriptions for my event messages when I use the NTEventLogAppender?

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The NT Event Viewer relies on message resource DLLs to properly view an event message. The NTEventLogAppender.dll contains these message resources, but that DLL must be copied to %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32 for it to work properly.